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Waste Management in Pune, IndiaMon, 27 Jul 2015 10:29:57 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/32450-waste-management-in-pune-india
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Waste Management in Pune, India
MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design MITEI Future of Solar National Press Club PresentationFri, 08 May 2015 12:12:43 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/31826-mitei-future-of-solar-national-press-club-presentation
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MITEI Future of Solar National Press Club Presentation
Future of Solar Energy Study Kevin Simon & Marcos Esparza: Efficient Irrigation in IndiaWed, 29 Apr 2015 09:47:36 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/31762-kevin-simon-marcos-esparza-efficient-irrigation-in-india
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Kevin Simon & Marcos Esparza: Efficient Irrigation in India
e4Dev Getting Through on Global Warming: How to Rewire Climate Change CommunicationMon, 27 Apr 2015 11:49:11 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/31729-getting-through-on-global-warming-how-to-rewire-climate-change-communication
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Getting Through on Global Warming: How to Rewire Climate Change Communication
MIT Climate Change Conversation 15th Annual Kendall Lecture
Marotzke is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and was an MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) faculty member in the 1990s. He has spent his career researching the role of the ocean in climate and climate change, and recently expanded his interests to include multi-year to decadal climate prediction. “If you look at other central indicators of global climate, such as sea ice melt, ocean heat uptake, and sea-level rise, they show that global warming is continuing,” Marotzke said. “But this particular indicator, global surface temperature, is rising at a much lower rate now. This is something that as a climate research community we need to take seriously; we need to understand it and communicate the issues about it.”

For the past 15 years, increases in global mean surface temperature have slowed contrary to what climate model simulations predicted. Known as the warming “hiatus”, this phenomenon is largely due to natural variability: Cyclical climate processes such as La Niña and fluctuations in the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth’s surface can disrupt the warming trend. Additionally, the oceans absorb an enormous amount of excess heat energy trapped by the atmosphere — as much as 93 percent, Marotzke said. Light-reflecting aerosols from volcanoes also contribute to the slowdown.

The failure of climate models to predict this hiatus has long perplexed scientists and bred some public mistrust in climate models. Climate-change skeptics claim the hiatus is proof that global warming doesn’t exist, and that climate models overestimate greenhouse gases’ warming effects. Marotzke ardently disagrees. He shared with the audience a study published in Nature earlier this year in which he and co-author Piers Forster of the University of Leeds analyzed 114 model simulations of 15-year global mean temperature trends since the beginning of the 20th century. If their analysis showed that models consistently overestimated or underestimated the amount of warming compared to real-world observations, then the models must have a systematic bias.

Fortunately the simulations performed fairly well, producing a range of predictions for each 15-year period in which actual observed temperature trends for those periods fell. Even if the observed trends at times fell close to range edges, they were not biased to one side or the other. Although the models didn’t accurately predict the current warming hiatus, which is not unusual, they also failed to predict other accelerated warming or hiatus events. In fact, the models underestimated warming in some periods compared to the observations. “The claim that models systematically overestimate warming from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations is unfounded,” said Marotzke.

To find out what these simulated short-term temperature trends actually tell us about the climate, Marotzke and Forster performed a multiple regression analysis, which aimed to identify the most significant factors contributing to the trend. For shorter 15-year periods, the analysis found random natural variability in the climate system had the largest influence — approximately three times the impact of all other physical factors combined. Only when Marotzke and Forster analyzed model simulations of global mean temperature trends spanning 62 years did differences in factors including ocean heat absorption, greenhouse gas concentration, and aerosol pollution begin to make a noticeable difference.

In other words, modeling 15-year-long periods only shows the impact of natural variations in the climate system. To see anthropogenic influences on climate change, we have to look at the bigger picture. “The hiatus masks anthropogenic warming,” said Marotzke. “It is a huge distraction, but an incredibly fascinating one.”
The 15th annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture was sponsored by the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the MIT Center for Global Change Science. The lecture series honors the memory of Professor Henry Kendall (1926-1999), a 1990 Nobel Laureate, a longtime member of MIT’s physics faculty, and an ardent environmentalist. A founding member and chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists, he played a leading role in organizing scientific community statements on global problems, including the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity in 1992 and the Call for Action at the Kyoto Climate Summit in 1997.

John became interested in meteorology and oceanography as a physics undergraduate student at Imperial College, London. Since moving to MIT over 20 years ago, he has studied physical oceanography and, increasingly, the role of the ocean in climate. According to John, “I was attracted to the field of oceanography because of its wonderful mix of empiricism, observation, theory and modeling. Furthermore, its ‘bottom-up’ nature allows scientists themselves to identify the problems to be solved, then organize and implement programs to do so. It still remains a field in which scientists working in small groups can make a huge impact.” He is motivated by the fact that understanding the climate, and the role of the ocean therein, represents one of the greatest and important intellectual challenges facing mankind today.

Professor Marshall is the Director of MIT’s Climate Modeling Initiative and also the coordinator of Oceans @ MIT, a new umbrella organization dedicated to all things related to the ocean across the Institute.
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Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:48:08 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/30907-the-oceans-in-a-warming-world-prof-john-marshall-mit-club-of-northern-california
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The Oceans in a Warming World - Prof. John Marshall - MIT Club of Northern California
Energy and Clean Tech Series Wulff Lecture: Hey, Atoms: What Have You Done for Me Lately? : The age of materials design and how it will change the energy world
Jeffrey C. Grossman, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Nov. 18, 2014

Understanding, inventing, and engineering mechanisms and materials for energy production, energy storage, and energy transport are among the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Materials-driven advances are key to technologies that counter the deleterious environmental and political impacts of the world's long-standing reliance on fossil fuels. Current renewable energy conversion and storage technologies are either too expensive or too inefficient or both. Materials science and engineering is at the core of the energy challenge: many key mechanisms that convert and store energy are dominated by the intrinsic properties of the active materials involved. Our imperative is to predict, identify, and manufacture new materials as comprehensively and rapidly as possible to enable game-changing forward leaps rather than our current path of incremental advances. This lecture will discuss the impact of materials design on the energy world.

The Wulff Lecture is an introductory, general audience, entertaining lecture that aims to educate, inspire, and encourage MIT undergraduates to take up study of materials science and engineering and related fields. The entire MIT community, particularly freshmen, is invited to attend. The Wulff Lecture honors the late Professor John Wulff, a skilled, provocative, and entertaining teacher who conceived of a new approach to teaching general chemistry and inaugurated the popular freshman subject, 3.091 Introduction to Solid State Chemistry.
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Since its inception in 2009, the MIT Energy Studies minor has been attracting students from a wide variety of academic and personal backgrounds. Now five years old, the Energy Studies minor is the third largest at MIT. The program has grown from graduating an inaugural class of three students to boasting a 2014 class of 35. Undergraduate research opportunities focused on energy also have grown - last year 46 students took part.

But more compelling than the numbers are the individual stories – the challenges that motivate our students. Graduates from the class of 2014 reflect in this video on what drew them to the study of energy from fields as varied as Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Science, Nuclear Engineering and Economics.

In this talk, Professor Lester will discuss the role of innovation in making an energy source - already much safer than it was 40 years ago - less expensive, more secure and safer still, while developing new approaches that are designed to meet the rapidly evolving capabilities and limitations of electric power grids.

What new developments seem most promising today? Can innovations in nuclear power and fuel cycle technologies, as well as in nuclear governance and education, unlock the potential of nuclear power to help drive the global transition to an affordable, reliable, low-carbon energy system?

Professor Lester will describe some of the advanced technologies under development at MIT. Examples will include hybrid nuclear-renewables systems, nuclear air-Brayton combined cycle systems, new reactor siting strategies and off-grid applications.
Finally, he will describe the choice facing the US - become a 21st century nuclear also-ran, or lead the development of a new generation of nuclear technologies? He will outline a new approach to large-scale nuclear innovation, designed to tap into America’s formidable industrial capabilities and entrepreneurial strengths.

Richard Lester is Head of MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), and also faculty chair of the Industrial Performance Center. His research focuses on local, national, and international systems of innovation. He is also active in research and teaching on nuclear technology innovation, management and control. As head of NSE he works with his faculty colleagues to help develop the next generation of leaders of the global nuclear enterprise and to provide technical leadership in energy and non-energy applications of nuclear science and technology. As the founding director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center, he has led several major studies of national and regional competitiveness and innovation performance commissioned by governments and industrial groups around the world.

Professor Lester’s latest book is Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System. He is the author or co-author of seven other books on energy, innovation and productivity.

He obtained his undergraduate degree in ChemE from Imperial College and a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT and he has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1979. He serves on several boards and as an advisor to corporations, governments, and non-profit groups, and speaks frequently to academic, business and general audiences throughout the world.]]>

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The revival of rapid economic growth is an urgent imperative for India. At the same time, it is recognized that this growth must also be ecologically sustainable to both address domestic concerns and take into account the expectations of the international community. Energy choices will, to a very large extent, determine how successful India will be in this regard. Jairam Ramesh has, over the past three decades, been a key policy-maker at both an administrative and political level and his work has spanned all three areas of economy, energy, and the environment.

About the Speaker

Jairam Ramesh is a 2014 Fall Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh and a leader in international climate negotiations. He was chief negotiator for India at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has been a leading figure in international climate diplomacy for years. Mr. Ramesh also played a key leadership role at the Climate Change Summit in Cancun (2010) and at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (2009-2010). He held numerous high-level government posts, including Indian Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development and Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests. He worked as an Advisor to the Finance Minister during 1996-98, to the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission during 1992-94, and to the Prime Minister in 1991. He has authored a number of government reports in area as diverse as energy, technology, capital goods, industrial policy, and telecom.

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Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:10:52 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/30094-the-growth-imperative-plotting-a-sustainable-energy-future-for-india
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The Growth Imperative: Plotting a Sustainable Energy Future for India
MIT Energy Initiative C3E 2014: Award for Business Leadership Presented to Zadhya Mohammed
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassador Karina Edmonds presents the 2014 C3E Award for Business Leadership to Zadhya Mohammed.

About the Speakers

Zadhya Mohammed Head of Sales, Wind Service, Americas, Siemens

Zadhya Mohammed has worked in the energy industry for 15 years and is leader in the business, as well as a mentor for Diversity at Siemens in the area of new employees, minorities, and women in the workplace.

While completing her Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Zadhya started her career at Siemens as an intern, and was subsequently hired as a design engineer. She then worked in various teams that developed turbo-machinery for high efficient gas turbines, to reduce emissions, improve energy production, and improve the product cost for the ultimate sale to the customer. She then moved to a marketing role and was responsible for promoting and selling products and services to make the current North American customer fleet more efficient and affordable. During this time, Zadhya transitioned into management and also became involved in the Siemens Inclusion & Diversity Council, participating in a variety of formal and informal mentoring and leadership development initiatives, both internal and external to Siemens. These include participating in programs developed by the European School of Management & Technology and the nationwide Women UNLIMITED leadership development program. She is PMP and Six Sigma Green Belt certified.

Zadhya is now in Siemens’ renewables division, as a senior marketing manager for the Americas. In this role, she is responsible for selling long term service contracts on wind turbines, as well as product upgrades to customers to improve energy output, as well as focusing on new markets in Central and South America. She continues to provide extensive mentoring to younger employees across various divisions of the corporation.

Dr. Karina Edmonds is a nationally recognized expert in the field of innovation, technology transfer, and commercialization. She recently completed a three-year appointment by the U.S. Secretary of Energy as the Technology Transfer Coordinator for the U.S. Department of Energy. In that role, Edmonds was responsible for working with the Department’s national laboratories to accelerate the process of moving discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace. She has also held positions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and TRW, Inc. (now Northrop Grumman).

Edmonds currently serves as the Executive Director for Institute Corporate Relations at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She is responsible for implementing and managing an integrated strategy that transcends the Office of the Vice Provost of Research and attendant research portfolio supporting Caltech’s long-range strategies and interests involving the private sector and major federal government funding agencies.

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Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:20:50 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29883-c3e-2014-award-for-business-leadership-presented-to-zadhya-mohammed
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C3E 2014: Award for Business Leadership Presented to Zadhya Mohammed
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Award for Government Leadership Presented to Ghita Levenstein Carroll, Ph.D.
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassador Joan Wills presents the 2014 C3E Award for Government Leadership to Dr. Ghita Levenstein Carroll.

About the Speakers

Ghita Levenstein Carroll is the Sustainability Coordinator for the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD), located in Colorado. In this roll, Dr. Carroll is directing and coordinating existing efforts around sustainability, and garnering support and partnerships for further integrating sustainability into district operations and curriculum. Some of her successes include defining a vision and goals for district-wide environmental sustainability and receiving Board of Education approval for a policy that supports sustainability initiatives. She has significantly increased renewable energy technologies and green products throughout the district and implemented several energy, water and waste reduction strategies. Carroll emphasizes the educational opportunity in all of her projects, and has supported many new green teams throughout the school district. BVSD received the 2014 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools District Award for this work. Previously, Dr. Carroll managed the energy program for CU-Boulder’s Environmental Center. One of her major accomplishments in that role was to develop and lead a university wind power campaign in 2000, making CU-Boulder the first school in the nation to raise student fees to support wind power and the largest university purchaser of wind at the time. Ghita received a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2008. Her dissertation work examined the relationship between emerging carbon markets and renewable energy markets. She has presented her work at forums such as the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, the First National Green Schools Conference, and conferences sponsored by the Electric Utility Industry and the American Wind Energy Association. Her work has been published in Energy Policy, Solar Today and by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Dr. Carroll is a LEED Green Associate and an Instructor for the Sustainable Practices Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She lives in Boulder with her husband and two children.

Ms. Joan Wills has been working on reducing emissions and improving the fuel efficiency of diesel and natural gas engines for the past 16 years. She is currently Cummins’ Chief Engineer and Program Leader working to develop and implement Tier4 emission requirements on Cummins large diesel engines for locomotive, power generation, marine, mining, and oil and gas markets.

Wills’ interest in clean energy and clean energy access really took root when she spent a year between her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering volunteering in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for a local rural development group. There she observed a very different way of life from her own. Access to clean energy was a key enabler to expanding life options beyond basic survival. When Wills returned to the United States, she combined this interest in clean energy with a passion for using math and science to understand and solve difficult problems. She attended Ohio State University and worked in the Center for Automotive Research, where she completed her thesis on gasoline engine controls.

Wills joined Cummins after earning a MS in Electrical Engineering with a focus on system dynamics and controls. Early in her Cummins career, she developed advanced controls and diagnostics for engine and aftertreatment systems, including initial introduction of diesel aftertreatment technologies that enable lower engine-out emissions while optimizing fuel usage. Wills has 18 U.S. patents on diesel engine controls and diagnostics. She led Cummins’ Research and Technology Electronics function during a time when increasingly stringent emission regulations combined with new on-board diagnostics requirements expanded the need for sensing systems, signal processing, and multivariable controls to effectively optimize fuel usage while meeting emissions and diagnostic requirements. For the past three years, Wills has worked as Director of Technology Strategy, Planning, and Innovation. In this role, she works with Cummins technical leaders around the world to develop technology strategies ensuring that research plans and resources keep the company on the forefront of emission and efficiency technologies globally to meet current and future market needs.

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Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:19:31 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29882-c3e-2014-award-for-government-leadership-presented-to-ghita-levenstein-carroll-ph-d
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C3E 2014: Award for Government Leadership Presented to Ghita Levenstein Carroll, Ph.D.
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: A Panel Discussion on Making Wise Energy Investments in an Era of Constraints
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E panelists Jacquelyn Dadakis, Stacy Richards, Mary Barber and Joyce Ferris are led in discussion by moderator Elena Alschuler on the topic of "Making Wise Energy Investments in an Era of Constraints." Forward-looking leaders are addressing the competing goals of productive, affordable, low-carbon energy by establishing partnerships and programs to make their cities smarter and greener. This discussion addresses how public, private and non-profit innovators are taking on these challenges.

About the Speakers

As a Project Manager in DOE’s Building Technologies Program, Ms. Alschuler is responsible for developing tools and standards that make it easier to manage, analyze and share empirical information about building energy performance, including the Buildings Performance Database, the SEED Platform and the Building Energy Data Exchange Specification. Elena is also leading DOE’s efforts to strengthen the evidence linking building energy performance with financial performance, and encourage commercial real estate appraisers, brokers, and lenders to fully incorporate these benefits in real estate transactions.

Ms. Alschuler received a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a Research Assistant for the MIT Energy Efficiency Strategy Project, Elena worked closely with Duke Energy to design the Smart Energy Now commercial building advanced metering pilot in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Previously, she worked as a Senior Analyst at HR&A Advisors, where she served as the project manager for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA’s) Focus on Commercial Real Estate program.

Jackie is the Managing Director of GCE Services, the division of Green Coast Enterprises that provides strategic consulting services to property owners, municipalities, and utilities seeking to be more energy efficient. Before joining Green Coast, Jackie worked for Clean Energy Solutions, Inc. as a senior consultant developing innovative financing strategies for energy efficiency and creating community-utility partnerships for the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and the Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance under the Department of Energy BetterBuildings Program.

Jackie also worked for Rebuilding Together, a national non-profit with affiliates in over 200 communities in the United States providing free home repair to low-income homeowners. As an Americorps VISTA, she launched Rebuilding Together’s response to Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.

Jackie holds a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College. She is a board member of the transit policy and advocacy organization, Ride New Orleans, and the ratepayer advocacy organization, the Alliance for Affordable Energy.

Stacy Richards is the founding director of the SEDA-Council of Governments’ Energy Resource Center (ERC) which has provided technical assistance, education and training to public and private sector clients throughout 11 central Pennsylvania counties since 2005. She has pioneered community-wide energy independence projects in Pennsylvania and in 2013 authored Energizing Small Communities: A Guide to Greater Energy Independence and Economic Resilience, a national award-winning manual for use by communities to cost-effectively implement community-wide energy independence projects. As PA Department of Environmental Protection’s Deputy Secretary for Pollution Prevention and Compliance Assistance, Stacy initiated a variety of programs and policies that shifted PADEP and public and private sector organizations throughout the Commonwealth away from managing pollution to adopting best practices to prevent pollution and to reduce reliance on conventional fossil fuels. Stacy was introduced to renewable energy policy as a member of the White House staff under President Carter. Stacy served as Director of Government Affairs Director for the American Council of Engineering Companies and the URS Corporation in Washington. As agency coordinator for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, Stacy managed a unique collaborative process under the National Environmental Policy Act that designed out thousands of regulatory and community concerns during the planning and design of the $14 billion urban transportation project in downtown Boston.

She has served on the boards of numerous professional organizations including Women in Government Relations in Washington, DC, the Women’s Transportation Seminar, and the Renewable Resources Institute. Stacy works with local college and university faculty in central Pennsylvania to prepare students across many disciplines to address climate change challenges by introducing policies and best practices into course curriculums and providing real world experience to students through Energy Resource Center internships and class projects.

Stacy holds a B.A. in Political Science from Bucknell University and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

As EDF’s Director, New Jersey Clean Energy, Mary Barber focuses on climate and energy in New Jersey. She works with New Jersey’s Office of Clean Energy, the Board of Public Utilities, and the legislature to advocate for EDF’s clean energy priorities and guide the development of policies related to electric grid resiliency in the post-Sandy era. She’s also working to expand renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency and implement the finance mechanisms that help fund them.

Before turning her attention to her home state of New Jersey, Mary led efforts in New York City to phase out dirty heating oils as part of the successful NYC Clean Heat program, which met its goal of halving soot emissions and led to the city’s cleanest air in over 50 years.

In 2010, Mary launched EDF’s Investor Confidence Project (ICP), a system designed to develop building retrofit opportunities into reliable Investor Ready Energy Efficient™ projects. ICP uses a suite of commercial and multi-family energy efficiency protocols assembled from market best practices to prepare an energy efficiency project for investment. ICP is aimed at increasing investor confidence in energy efficiency and transforming it into an investable asset class with steady cash flow for both investors and building owners.

Prior to joining EDF’s Clean Energy team, Mary was the director of EDF’s NYC Congestion Pricing campaign, a program designed to reduce air pollution, including greenhouse gases, in New York City by decreasing traffic and expanding mass transit.

Mary has extensive experience in New York City government and nonprofit management. She served as chief of staff for a former New York City Council Member where she directed policy and legislative work. Following the City Council, Mary was the director of operations and external relations for a human services agency.

Joyce Ferris Founder and Managing Partner, Blue Hill Partners LLC.

Joyce has been an entrepreneur in the energy technology industry for close to 30 years and she is passionate about building businesses and projects in the sector. She has been an operating executive, investor, and/or active board member in eleven entrepreneurial companies with technologies and services related to improving efficiency and performance of lighting, air conditioning, ventilation, monitoring and control and providing cost effective solutions for on-site power generation. Prior to founding Blue Hill, Joyce was a senior founding executive and principal shareholder with Reading Energy, an early independent power company founded in 1985. At Reading Energy she managed energy project and corporate financial transactions totaling over $500 million. After Reading Energy, Joyce led the acquisition of Energy Products of Idaho (“EPI”), a combustion technology firm specializing in the efficient conversion of solid waste material to energy. After purchasing EPI she became a major shareholder and led business development and strategic partnerships for the company. Her energy project experience includes energy efficiency and on-site generation projects, biomass and agricultural waste fired energy projects, industrial waste disposal facilities, waste-coal fired power plants, geothermal, and hydroelectric projects.

Joyce has held numerous board positions and is currently on the board of Aircuity, Nextility, Performance Systems Development, and Good Company Group. A recognized thought leader, Joyce is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and was recently named one of the Top Twenty Women Cleantech Investors. She holds a B.A. from Reed College in History and Philosophy (1981) and an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in Energy Management and Policy (1985) with a concentration in finance at the Wharton School. She is a lifelong sailor and spends as much time on salt water as her work allows.

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Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:41:43 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29842-c3e-2014-a-panel-discussion-on-making-wise-energy-investments-in-an-era-of-constraints
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29842-c3e-2014-a-panel-discussion-on-making-wise-energy-investments-in-an-era-of-constraints
C3E 2014: A Panel Discussion on Making Wise Energy Investments in an Era of Constraints
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Award for Law & Finance Leadership
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassador Britt Ide presents the award for Law & Finance Leadership to Phuong Young Phillips, Assistant General Counsel, SolarCity Corporation

About the Speakers

Phuong Young PhillipsAssistant General Counsel, SolarCity Corporation

Phuong Phillips is SolarCity Corporation’s Assistant General Counsel. SolarCity is the #1 solar installation company in the U.S. After working with SolarCity as its lead outside counsel, she joined the in-house team in 2011. Phuong leads the corporate and securities team and advises senior executives and the board of directors on a broad range of public company matters, including corporate governance, securities compliance, SEC reporting, internal and external communications and a variety of corporate transactions.

As a key senior member of the SolarCity legal team, Phuong has helped drive the company’s rapid and enormous growth, particularly in managing such important transactions as the company’s IPO, convertible note financings, and first-of-their-kind solar asset securitization financings. She also recently has managed the development and anticipated deployment of an innovative financing platform for smaller investors to directly invest in clean energy projects, creating greater opportunities for clean energy investors and raising potentially up to hundreds of millions of dollars for the company to expand access to clean energy for customers. Phuong has played key roles in SolarCity’s acquisitions and integration of significant assets, technology and teams to support the company’s growth and to drive greater organizational and financial efficiencies.

Previously, from 2003 to 2011, Phuong was an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a premier national law firm focusing on technology companies. Phuong holds a B.A. in Communication Studies, with a specialization in Business Administration, and a J.D., both from the University of California, Los Angeles. Phuong also serves as chairwoman of the fundraising committee of her daughters’ public elementary school, as a board member of the local AYSO soccer league and as a manager of girls’ softball teams. Phuong lives with her husband and two young daughters in Los Altos, California.

C3E Ambassador Britt Ide President, Ide Law and Strategy, PLLC

Ms. Britt Ide is a lawyer, an engineer, a student of economics, a policy enthusiast, and advocate of public involvement. More importantly, however, she is a connector, a big-picture thinker, and a catalyst for creative solutions. As Founder and President of Ide Law & Strategy, PLLC, Ide uses her unique blend of communication, quick learning, and interpersonal skills to bring organizations and stakeholders together to create sustainable solutions.

With more than 20 years of experience working with small and large organizations in energy, natural resources, engineering, retail, health, higher education, and nonprofit areas, Ide understands the critical role that strategy development, organizational alignment, and open communication play in creating practical solutions. She attended the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah, Montana State University, Ohio State University, and Cornell University. Ide is admitted to the bars of Idaho, Montana, and Utah. In addition to her law degree, she holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Environmental Engineering with an emphasis in economics. Ide also completed the intensive Mediation Training at the Harvard Negotiation Institute.

Ide’s work history includes positions at the Ohio and Utah Houses of Representatives, Battelle Memorial Institute, Boise Cascade, Albertsons, Healthwise, and Idaho Power Company. She serves on the board of directors of PCS Edventures, a public company that implements science, technology, engineering, and math education programs in all 50 states and 17 countries.

Ide and her husband keep busy with two young children and like to mountain bike, hike, snowshoe, or read in rare free moments. She is active in the community and serves on the board of directors of the Idaho Nonprofit Center and on the advisory board of the Boise State University College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs.

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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:36:56 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29819-c3e-2014-award-for-law-finance-leadership
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C3E 2014: Award for Law & Finance Leadership
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Award for International Leadership
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassador Alla Weinstein presents the award for International Leadership to Ashley Murray Muspratt, Founder and CEO of Waste Enterprisers Ltd, Waste Enterprisers Holding and Pivot Kenya.

About the Speakers

Ashley Muspratt is a waste-to-energy entrepreneur focused on using business to solve human waste management challenges in developing cities. She is the Founder & CEO of Waste Enterprisers Holding (USA)/Pivot Ltd (Kenya), a start-up company that converts human waste to solid fuel for industry. Ashley’s academic background includes a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley’s Energy & Resources Group and an M.S. from the university’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Her business background evolved over a childhood spent working at and helping manage her parents’ small businesses. Ashley is driven in her work by a passion for protecting the environment and a penchant for tackling global challenges.

Ashley was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2011, was a Fellow at the 2012 Unreasonable Institute and mentor at the 2014 Unreasonable Institute East Africa, and has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences, including Harvard’s Africa Business Conference, World Water Week (Stockholm), and World Biofuels Market (Rotterdam). She has published over 10 peer-reviewed journal articles in the sanitation and renewable energy literature.

Ashley lives in Mombasa, Kenya, where Pivot is constructing a waste-to-fuel factory. When she’s not in CEO mode, she enjoys the outdoors, a variety of sports, cooking, reading, traveling, and crossword puzzles. In addition to Kenya, she has lived and worked in China and Ghana; conducted short-term assignments in India, Uganda, and Senegal; and traveled extensively across Europe, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.

Ms. Alla Weinstein is Chief Executive Officer and President of Principle Power, Inc., a company that supplies floating offshore wind systems. Before co-founding Principle Power, she was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AquaEnergy Group, a company that successfully developed a wave energy conversion technology that was acquired by a TSXV-listed renewable energy company, where she was the General Manager and a Director. Weinstein brings more than 35 years of industry experience building global engineering projects for companies like Honeywell and Boeing.

Weinstein is a frequent speaker in the United States and Europe on the development of renewable energy and has served as the first President of the European Ocean Energy Association.

Weinstein holds a Bachelor’s of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management.

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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:27:58 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29818-c3e-2014-award-for-international-leadership
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29818-c3e-2014-award-for-international-leadership
C3E 2014: Award for International Leadership
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Energy, Mobility, and the Shape of Future Cities
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, panelists Sonia Hamel, Shelley Poticha and Catherine Ross are lead by moderator Susanne Rasmussen in a discussion about "Energy, Mobility, and the Shape of Future Cities." Our choices about how we travel in cities will have a significant impact on urban growth patterns. They explore how the evolution of transportation options, including bike sharing, car sharing, and mass transit, directly influences decisions about whether cities expand up (increased density) or out (increased land use).

About the Speakers

Susanne RasmussenDirector of the Environmental and Transportation Planning Division, Cambridge Community Development Department

Susanne Rasmussen is director of the Environmental and Transportation Planning Division in the Cambridge Community Development Department and has more than 20 years of experience in the implementation of environmental policies and programs. She is responsible for the city’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and developing programs to engage residents and business in this effort. She also oversees the development of new transportation policies and implementation of a variety of transportation programs and projects such as large multi-modal roadway projects, traffic calming, and transportation demand management. Prior to joining the City of Cambridge Ms. Rasmussen was a senior manager for a non-profit energy service company and a land use planner in a major metropolitan city. Ms. Rasmussen has a master’s degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s in Civil Engineering and Planning from the University of Aalborg in Denmark.

Sonia Hamel Climate Protection Consultant

Sonia consults to foundations, non-profits and governments in the areas of climate, energy and transportation policy. She specializes in work with states to boost their climate programs and policies. For example, she is currently performing a study to design a carbon tax for Massachusetts, developing climate action plans with the Governor’s office in Rhode Island and working with Northeast states on ways of reducing emissions from the transportation sector.

In the past few years, she has worked for organizations as diverse as: The Georgetown Climate Center, The Environmental League of Massachusetts, The State Smart Transportation Initiative, The British Embassy (in Washington, DC), Ceres, The Union of Concerned Scientists, The New England Clean Energy Council, The Barr Foundation, The Linden Trust, and The Energy Foundation.

Previously, Sonia served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for nearly 30 years, coordinating air quality, energy and climate protection programs. Based in the Office for Commonwealth Development, she was a founder and state lead in the development of the highly successful Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a regional cap and trade program for the electric sector. For nearly four years, Sonia guided the process as one of the three Steering Committee members with primary responsibility for the public stakeholder process, coordination of a multi-state working group and the regional economic analysis. During that time, she also wrote and developed the first Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan and launched the national Carbon Registry.

Previously, Sonia was Massachusetts Director of Air Policy and Planning for 10 years developing one of the most aggressive air pollution programs in the U.S., with a focus on vehicle emission standards and power plant clean up. She helped to develop the nation’s first carbon regulations was the chief coordinator for the New England Governors’ and Eastern Canadian Premiers Climate Action Plan in 2001, a sub-national climate plan and the first international climate agreement in the U.S. She was instrumental in the fight to maintain requirements for cleaner cars in the Commonwealth and throughout the US and is a big proponent of cleaner car technologies. Sonia has worked on climate issues since 1994 when she was appointed to the White House Advisory Committee on Transportation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The first 12 years of her career was at the Boston Metropolitan Area at the Central Transportation Planning Staff on environmental issues as an urban planner and public participation coordinator.

Shelley Poticha serves as the director of the Urban Solutions program, building NRDC’s work for better cities that support thriving people. Urban Solutions brings the place-based work of NRDC together into a coordinated strategy and includes promoting transportation choices through mobility options, scaling up building energy efficiency, model green and equitable neighborhoods, sustainable food systems, green infrastructure and climate preparedness. Urban Solutions is the culmination of NRDC’s thinking and work for sustainable communities since the organization adopted the area as an institutional priority.

Shelley is a longtime partner of NRDC in multiple initiatives including transportation policy reform, LEED-ND, and the creation of Smart Growth America. Prior to joining NRDC, Shelley was a senior advisor and director of the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Before joining HUD, she served as President and CEO of Reconnecting America, where she became a national leader for the reform of land use and transportation planning and policy with the goal of creating more sustainable and equitable development, particularly around transit stations. And prior to that, she served as Executive Director of the Congress for the New Urbanism.

Shelley holds a Master of City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She works in NRDC’s Washington office.

Catherine RossDirector of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Harry West Professor of City and Regional Planning, Deputy Director of the National Center for Transportation System Productivity and Management, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Catherine L. Ross is Harry West Professor and directs the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is Advance Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning in the College of Architecture and Deputy Director of the National Center for Transportation System Productivity and Management, a $14 million designation.

An internationally known transportation and urban planner, Dr. Ross is one of the world’s expert on Megaregions and sustainability – how to bring together regions and cities on transportation, water, energy, land, housing, health to create great places to live that compete in a global world. Her book, Megaregions and Global Competitiveness (2009), is a leading reference funded by the Ford foundation. Her extensive research on regional resilience and sustainability focuses on water, energy and transportation and her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy-China, and many local, city, and state governments throughout the country and abroad. Dr. Ross has published extensively and completed the Masters of Regional Planning Program and Doctoral Degree at Cornell University. She conducted her post-doctoral work at the University of California- Berkeley. Her recent book “Health Impact Assessment in the United States,” was published in 2014 by Springer. Dr. Ross served as the first Executive Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), an innovative regional state agency created by the Georgia Legislature in 1999 to help counties out-of-compliance with clean air standards by implementing new transportation services and projects. She is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and a former Urban Land Institute Fellow. Professor Ross is the 2014 Georgia Power Professor of Excellence.

Dr. Ross is a member of the AAA Auto Club Group Board of Directors and serves on the executive committee and chairs the audit, finance and ethics committee. In July 2009, she was selected to advise the Obama Administration on the first-ever White House Office of Urban Affairs.

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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:22:14 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29817-c3e-2014-energy-mobility-and-the-shape-of-future-cities
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29817-c3e-2014-energy-mobility-and-the-shape-of-future-cities
C3E 2014: Energy, Mobility, and the Shape of Future Cities
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Remarks on Cities and Resilience by Nancy Kete, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassador and Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation Nancy Kete speaks about "Cities and Resilience."

About the Speaker

C3E Ambassador Nancy KeteManaging Director, Rockefeller Foundation

Dr. Nancy Kete joined the Rockefeller Foundation in January 2012. As Managing Director, she leads the foundation’s global work on resilience, including developing strategies and practices for infusing resilience thinking throughout the foundation’s work.

During her 25-year career in government, civil society, and the private sector, Kete has provided technical, institutional, and managerial leadership on a number of major environmental and societal challenges. She has been a diplomat, a climate change negotiator, a social entrepreneur, and a highly successful fundraiser.

Before joining the Foundation, Kete spent 13 years at the World Resources Institute, first as Director of the Climate, Energy, and Pollution Program and then as founder and Director of EMBARQ, a distinguished program that catalyzed environmentally sustainable transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities in Mexico, Brazil, India, Turkey, and the Andean region. Kete also served on President Obama’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. In her role as Senior Advisor on Corporate Safety and Risk Management, she provided recommendations on unilateral steps the industry should take to improve safety above and beyond what the regulations would require.

Earlier in her career, Kete worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she led the development of the acid rain control title of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the first and as yet most successful application of market instruments for pollution control. She holds a PhD in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s in Geography from Southern Illinois University.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

About the Speakers

Governor Christine Todd Whitman has served as Co-Chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition (CASEnergy Coalition) since the Coalition was formed in 2006. As Co-Chair, Governor Whitman connects with policy-makers, business associations, scholars and community leaders to discuss the benefits of nuclear energy and promote a diverse energy portfolio. Governor Whitman’s work with the CASEnergy Coalition helps to foster a fact-based public dialogue about nuclear energy, a critical part of the Coalition’s mission to support the increased use of nuclear power to ensure an affordable, clean and safe supply of electricity.

Gov. Whitman served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2001 to 2003. She was the 50th Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1994 until 2001.

Since leaving the EPA, Governor Whitman has served as President of The Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm specializing in energy and environmental issues.

Robert J. Stoner is an inventor and technology entrepreneur who has worked extensively in academia and industry throughout his career, having built and managed successful technology firms in the semiconductor, IT and optics industries. From 2007 through 2009 he lived and worked in Africa and India while serving in a variety of senior roles within the Clinton Foundation. Stoner also serves as co-Director of the Tata Center for Technology and Design at MIT, and is a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, which manages the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. His current research relates to energy technology and policy for developing countries. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Queen’s University, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in condensed matter physics.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, panelists Pratima Rangarajan, Barbara Burger, and Sarah White are lead by moderator Linda Silverman in a discussion around "The Future Talent Pipeline." As the clean energy economy grows, skilled workers are critical to its success. We need to continue to build a vibrant workforce to implement and manage clean technologies. The panel explores how companies are thinking about today’s and tomorrow’s human capital needs, their STEM skill base needs, and their gender diversity needs.

About the Speakers

Linda Silverman Lead for Workforce Development and Education, DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Linda Silverman is the lead for workforce and education in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. In that role, she focuses on workforce issues related to growing the clean energy economy, and enhancing the educational pipeline through multidisciplinary energy education resources, such as the Energy Literacy Framework. Prior to this, she spent 10 years as a Senior Advisor on renewable energy and climate change analytical issues, primarily focusing on international and market issues. From 1993 to 2001, Linda worked in DOE’s Office of Policy on climate change policy issues and served on the U.S. Government’s delegation to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. She came into the government as a Presidential Management Fellow. Linda holds a M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.S. in Finance from the University of Colorado.

Barbara Burger President, Chevron Technology Ventures

Barbara J. Burger is president of Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), a role she has held since June 1, 2013. CTV champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies into the corporation and includes three business units: carbon and biofuels, emerging technologies and venture capital.

Joining Chevron in 1987, Burger started as a research chemist at the Richmond Laboratory. After several technical assignments, she went on to a number of management positions of increasing responsibility in International Marketing, Chemicals, Technology Marketing and Lubricants. During her time in Lubricants, Burger held the positions of vice president of Base Oils; vice president of Europe, Africa, Middle East, based in London; vice president of Global Supply Chain and vice president of Supply Chain and Base Oils.

Burger serves as a non-executive director for Caltex Australia Limited, an ASX100 company, of which Chevron is a 50 percent shareholder. She is also a director on the board of the Houston Technology Center, a technology and business incubator and is on the Board of Directors for the Houston Symphony. She serves on the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Laboratory External Advisory Council. Burger is the executive sponsor for Chevron’s industrial relationship with MIT and sits on the governing board and energy council for the MIT Energy Initiative.

An active alumna of the University of Rochester, Burger is a founding member of the university’s San Francisco Bay Regional Cabinet and is also a member of the Texas Regional Cabinet. She is a member of the George Eastman Circle, the university’s leadership annual giving society and the Libraries’ Advisory Council. In 2012, she established the Barbara J. Burger Endowed Scholarship in the Sciences to support students pursuing degrees in biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, or physics. Burger graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Rochester in 1983. She went on to receive a doctoral degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1987 and an academic honor M.B.A. in finance from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994.

Sarah White Senior Associate, COWS, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sarah L. White is a Senior Associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), a national policy center at the University of Wisconsin dedicated to high-road economic development. Her work focuses on the intersection of labor, education, and energy policy at state and federal levels, and she is a national expert on jobs and training in the clean energy economy. White has written widely on education for sustainability and social change, including, most recently, Greener Reality: Resilience, Equity, and Skill Formation in a Cleaner U.S. Economy. She sits on the Leadership Council of the National Skills Coalition, chairs the National Working Group on Solar Career Pathways for the USDOE Solar Instructor Training Network, and served as the Secretary’s policy advisor for federal employment and training programs at Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development. Before settling in the Midwest, White for many years ran a USAID Development Education Program in New York, working to integrate academic and NGO efforts addressing poverty, food security and sustainable development. A labor historian and Fulbright Scholar, White holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Wellesley College.

Dr. Pratima Rangarajan is the General Manager for Product Management & Strategic Marketing at GE’s Energy Storage business. Pratima has 14 years of experience with GE in leadership and technology roles at GE’s Power & Water, NBC Universal and Global Research divisions. Prior to re-joining GE she served as the Senior VP of Research and Deputy Chief Technology Officer at Vestas Wind Systems. Pratima has a BS from MIT and a PhD from Princeton University, both in Chemical Engineering.

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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:08:24 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29810-c3e-2014-a-panel-discussion-on-the-future-talent-pipeline
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C3E 2014: A Panel Discussion on the Future Talent Pipeline
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Closing Remarks by Dr. Amy Glasmeier
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, Dr. Amy Glasmeier closes out the third annual C3E symposium thanking participants and guests for their continued support and encouragement.

About the Speaker

Dr. Amy Glasmeier holds a professional masters and PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2009 to 2013, she was the Department Head of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She serves as a professor of economic geography and regional planning and is Co-Chair of the Energy Education Task Force of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI).

She received a Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) at the Association’s annual meeting in 2014 for her data-rich insights into the geographies of economic development and planning, her research on patterns and trends in rural poverty in America, and her outstanding efforts to understand and inform public policy.

Glasmeier is the author and co-author of several monographs – including Manufacturing Time: Global Competition in the World Watch Industry 1750-2000; High-tech Potential: Economic Development in Rural America; From Combines to Computers: Rural Services and Development in the Age of Information Technology; and High Tech America – as well as the Atlas of Poverty in America. These books reflect the topics of her articles, book chapters and policy reports where she has provided important insights into the development of industrial complexes and high-tech industries, geographies of trade policy and globalization, the failures and successes of efforts to end poverty, and the landscape of inequality in the United States.

Her work assesses public policy through careful empirical analysis of economic and census data. One key contribution is Glasmeier’s focus on the unintended effects of public policy, especially in rural America, documenting the impacts of NAFTA, high-tech industries and federal economic development programs on the poor and the prosperity of rural communities.

Glasmeier’s research and policy contributions in the field of energy dateback to 1970s, when she contributed to the first California university system-wide public outreach program around renewable energy. During the 1980s Glasmeier developed expertise in the fields of boomtown impact analysis and energy development in the western United States.

For almost two decades, Glasmeier provided key technical support for the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal state agency with geographic responsibility for economic and social development of the nation’s eastern coalfields, among the poorest communities in the US. As part of a team, Glasmeier developed the agency’s first region-wide energy policy, departing significantly from the previous reliance on coal toward a more balanced program emphasizing renewable and non renewable energy sources. Subsequently, she conducted several research projects dissecting the economic competitiveness of US renewable energy firms in several industries.

Since arriving at MIT, Glasmeier has taught classes on global energy industry and policy. Committed to informing public policy in the United States, she has completed a large number of policy reports for agencies and organizations that include the Ford Foundation, HUD, USDA Economic Research Service, The Appalachian Regional Commission, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, the Economic Policy Institute, the Aspen Institute, and the Department of Defense.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

About the Speaker

Mr. Seth Weissman is responsible for all aspects of SolarCity’s legal affairs, including transactional, governance, intellectual property, real estate, and employment matters. He brings 20 years of experience representing Silicon Valley companies of all sizes and types during their maturation.

Before joining SolarCity, Weissman was Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Privacy officer at Coremetrics, the leading digital marketing company. Prior to Coremetrics, he was an attorney practicing in both the employment and corporate departments at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati (WSGR) in Palo Alto, California, the leading law firm representing technology companies at all stages of their growth and the investment banks and venture capital firms that finance them. Prior to WSGR, Weissman was an attorney with Stoneman, Chandler and Miller and Hutchins, Wheeler and Dittmar (acquired by Nixon Peabody), both in Boston, Massachusetts.

Weissman earned his undergraduate degree in political science at Pennsylvania State University and earned his law degree, with honors, at Boston University School of Law.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassador Kim Saylors-Laster presents the award for Advocacy Leadership to Dorothy Barnett, Executive Director of The Climate and Energy Project

About the Speakers

Dorothy BarnettExecutive Director, The Climate and Energy Project

As Executive Director of the Climate + Energy Project, Dorothy Barnett is leading the effort to address the Heartland’s energy future. Grounded in an approach based on prosperity and energy security, Barnett has been successful in convening diverse voices in a conservative region of the country.

Prior to her position as Executive Director, Barnett served for 4 years as CEP’s Director of Energy and Transmission. This work put Dorothy on the ground in energy policy work at the local, state and regional level. In this capacity she also led innovative programs such as the Take Charge Challenge and the Heartland Alliance for Regional Transmission – both of which raised the profile for energy efficiency, transmission and wind energy in Kansas and beyond. CEP’s newest project is gathering the agricultural, energy and water sectors to highlight innovative farm advancements in water and energy conservation that also positively impact the bottom-line. Barnett coordinated a successful and far-reaching effort to defend the Kansas Renewable Portfolio Standard from special interest groups attacks on clean energy during the 2014 Kansas legislative session.

CEP and Mrs. Barnett have been recognized with national media attention, including MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show for the innovative work being done in Kansas and across the Heartland. Barnett is frequently invited to speak on a range of clean energy topics including a recent presentation at Yale for a public forum of “The ‘C’ Words: Addressing Climate Change Without Talking About Climate Change – a Regional Perspective.”

Barnett got her start in wind energy with the Reno County Wind Energy Task Force, which was awarded the Governor’s Energy Award for Energy Education in 2008. Dorothy has a BA in organizational management from Friends University.

C3E Ambassador Kim Saylors-Laster Vice President, Energy, Wal-Mart

Ms. Kim Saylors-Laster is the Vice President of Energy for Walmart. Saylors-Laster and her team are responsible for natural gas procurement within the United States and electricity procurement in the United States and the United Kingdom. The team also provides guidance to energy markets within Walmart’s international trade areas. She is an executive champion of a number of renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives within the Walmart Sustainability Networks. After joining Walmart in 1994, Saylors-Laster held leadership roles on the Real Estate and Global Compliance teams before joining the Energy team in 2006.

Saylors-Laster sits on the Texas Energy Management and Innovation Advisory Board at the McCombs School of Business and is a board member for Empower-A-Child. She is an Arkansas-licensed attorney, an Arkansas-licensed Associate Counselor, and a volunteer counselor at the Samaritan Community Center in Rogers, Arkansas.

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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:11:28 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29807-c3e-2014-award-for-advocacy-leadership
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/29807-c3e-2014-award-for-advocacy-leadership
C3E 2014: Award for Advocacy Leadership
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Award for Education Leadership
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassador Barbara Kates-Garnick presents the award for Educational Leadership to Professor Debra Rowe of Oakland Community College.

About the Speakers

Debra Rowe Professor, Oakland Community College

Dr. Rowe is the President of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development (www.uspartnership.org). The U.S. Partnership convenes members of the business, education, communities, government, and faith sectors of the U.S. and catalyzes national sustainability initiatives. Dr. Rowe is also co-founder of the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (www.aashe.org/heasc), founder/facilitator of the Disciplinary Associations’ Network for Sustainability (www.aashe.org/dans), Senior Fellow at Second Nature (www.secondnature.org) and Senior Advisor to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (www.aashe.org). She works with the private sector to catalyze successful business models for the triple bottom line of sustainability. She helps higher education faculty and staff, K-12 associations and other private and public institutions integrate sustainability into mission, curricula and training, research, policy, culture, purchasing and investments, facilities and operations, and community partnerships.

Dr. Rowe has been staff consultant for a U.S. Department of Education funded project entitled “Sustainability Improves Student Learning” (http://serc.carleton.edu/sisl). Debra has also been professor of energy management and renewable energies for over 30 years at Oakland Community College (www.oaklandcc.edu/est). She has also developed curricula in sustainable development, products and processes and sustainable living. She also teaches Campus Sustainability and Corporate Sustainability for the University of Vermont. Dr. Rowe helps other colleges and universities create their energy management, renewable energies and sustainability programs.

Dr Rowe is presently chairing the Technical Advisory Group and the Green Jobs Policy Community of Action for the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). In these roles, she convenes energy and sustainability experts, collects and reviews resources, and authors overarching documents for AACC’s Sustainability Education and Economic Development Resource Center (www.theSeedCenter.org). This Resource Center is designed to share curricula, partnership and civic engagement models, skills and competencies, quality criteria, promising practices and more resources relating to sustainability and green energy. Debra was also convener of the Detroit Green Skills Alliance, growing the green economy of Detroit while creating jobs for the Detroit area residents. Debra Rowe is often a keynote speaker at national and international education conferences. She is the author or editor of numerous publications, including the newly released encyclopedia, Achieving Sustainability: Vision, Principles and Practices.

C3E Ambassador Barbara Kates-GarnickInterim Director of Energy, Climate and Innovation Program, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Dr. Kates-Garnick is a leader in the energy and environmental fields. With expertise in strategic decision making in complex organizations, the cost/benefit of implementing regulatory mandates, organizations’ responses to the challenge of change, and the adaption of emerging technologies, she has negotiated major energy mergers and settlements, devised public and private partnerships, and provided strategic advice during crisis situations. Kates-Garnick most recently served as Undersecretary of Energy for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She teaches at The Fletcher School at Tufts, where she also serves as interim director of the Energy, Climate, and Innovation program at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy.

As Vice President of Corporate Affairs at KeySpan, Kates-Garnick directed government and media relations, crisis communications, and operations support in New England as well as corporate community outreach. As a path-breaker in the implementation of energy deregulation, she designed the strategy that led to the sale of the first deregulated electricity in the nation. Kates-Garnick has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Power Subcommittee and numerous state legislatures and regulatory bodies. As a public utility commissioner in Massachusetts, she facilitated the adoption of its early energy efficiency programs. In her consulting practice, Kates-Garnick has provided advice on a wide range of economic and regulatory issues faced by the energy, environmental, and telecommunications industries as they confront change and transformation.

Kates-Garnick currently serves on the executive committee of the board of The Partnership, the region’s foremost organization promoting talent of executives of color. She has served on the advisory board of the Posse Foundation and on the board of the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay. Kates-Garnick has a PhD in International Political Economy from The Fletcher School of Tufts University and an AB cum laude in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where her focus was on energy security.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassadors Mary Anne Sullivan and Marilyn Brown and Analysis Group Vice President Andrea Okie present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Susan F. Tierney, Managing Principal at Analysis Group

About the Speakers

Susan F. TierneyManaging Principal at Analysis Group

Sue Tierney is an expert on energy policy and economics, specializing in the electric and gas industries in the U.S. At Analysis Group in Boston, she has consulted to companies, governments, non-profit organizations, and others on energy markets, and economic and environmental regulation and strategy. She previously spent over a dozen years in state and federal government – as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy; and as cabinet officer for environmental affairs, public utility commissioner, and chair of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority in Massachusetts. She chairs the External Advisory Board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, chairs the ClimateWorks Foundation Board, and is a director of World Resources Institute, the Alliance to Save Energy, and the Energy Foundation. She is a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Energy Project, and the China Sustainable Energy Program’s Policy Advisory Council. She recently co-chaired the NAESB Gas-Electric Harmonization Committee, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel on shale gas risk, and was co-lead author of the energy chapter of the National Climate Assessment. She served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (and its Shale Gas Subcommittee). She has published widely, and frequently speaks at industry conferences and lectures at universities. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in regional planning at Cornell University, New York (where her mentor was a female professor), and her B.A. at Scripps College (a women’s college in California). She and her husband, John Tierney, have two grown sons, James and Tom.

Ms. Mary Anne Sullivan is the practice area leader for the energy regulatory practice at the law firm of Hogan Lovells US LLP. She has more than 25 years of experience as an energy lawyer. Sullivan has had direct involvement with virtually every segment of the energy industry and has represented clients on energy issues in administrative, regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters in both the private sector and the government. Her current practice primarily focuses on electricity regulatory matters and on transactional and regulatory matters involving climate change, nuclear and renewable energy, and advanced energy technologies. Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers has noted Sullivan’s “comprehensive understanding of the issues facing the energy industry.”

Sullivan served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from 1998 to 2001 and Deputy General Counsel for environment and nuclear programs from 1994 to 1998. She provided advice and counsel on electricity restructuring, the California electricity crisis, oil and gas policy, environmental compliance, global climate change, clean coal programs, the Northeast heating oil shortage, radioactive waste disposal, nuclear safety regulation, and privatization of uranium enrichment activities. Sullivan oversaw the legal support for the opening of the world’s first deep geologic disposal facility for radioactive waste and negotiated the first agreements with electric utilities regarding voluntary reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.

Sullivan was a member of Hogan & Hartson’s energy group from 1977 to 1993. She represented oil, gas, coal, and electricity interests before DOE, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in related litigation.

Sullivan is a frequent public speaker and author of articles on a variety of energy and environmental law topics. She has testified before several congressional committees on various issues, has been a senior lecturer in law at Duke University Law School and a professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University Law School, and has served on the board of the Energy Bar Association.

C3E Ambassador Marilyn BrownProfessor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Marilyn Brown is an endowed professor of energy policy in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where she directs the Climate and Energy Policy Lab. She is a national leader in the analysis and interpretation of scenarios for a sustainable energy future.

Before joining Georgia Tech in 2006, Brown managed the Efficiency, Renewables, and Electric Grid Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 2010 she joined the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power provider, following President Obama’s nomination. Brown has written two textbooks on climate and energy issues and has authored more than 250 publications. Among her honors and awards, she is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, for contributing to the report on Mitigation of Climate Change. Brown has served on six committees of the National Academies of Sciences, including the Committee on America’s Climate Choices and the Board of Energy and Environmental Systems. She co-founded the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance.

Brown earned a PhD in Geography from Ohio State University; an MRP in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts; and a BA in Political Science from Rutgers University.

Andrea OkieVice President, Analysis Group

Ms. Okie specializes in energy and environmental economics, strategy, and policy, with a focus on the electric and natural gas industries. She has consulted to companies, utilities, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations on a wide variety of energy and environmental-related matters.

Her recent energy-related engagements have included evaluating the ability of states to deploy energy efficiency as a compliance mechanism for carbon regulation; quantifying the economic impacts of alternative renewable energy investments, including employment and income effects, on behalf of a large utility; analyzing the power system and macroeconomic impacts of the Northeast states’ use of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative auction revenues; and evaluating the scope and performance of the independent market monitoring function at a regional transmission organization, including identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement, and preparing a report summarizing the results. In addition, Ms. Okie has provided analytic and strategic support for a utility’s development of a business plan for energy efficiency and demand-side management; examined issues surrounding fuel diversity in New York; assisted an oil company in negotiating a long-term liquefied natural gas supply contract; and managed a case team in evaluating claims of natural gas futures price manipulation. Ms. Okie has published articles and white papers in industry publications on topics such as demand response, offshore wind development, renewable energy market development, and the regulation of carbon emissions from power plants.

Ms. Okie received her M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. in economics from Colby College.

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C3E 2014: Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Susan F. Tierney, Managing Principal at Analysis Group
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Award for Research Leadership Presented to Sila Kiliccote
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, C3E Ambassador Constance Lau presents the 2014 C3E Award for Research Leadership to Sila Kiliccote, Leader of the Grid Integration Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

About the Speakers

Sila Kiliccote is a Research Scientist, the Group Leader of the Grid Integration Group and the Deputy of the Demand Response Research Center at the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research interests include use of demand response and distributed energy resources for distribution system operation, including quantifying resource availability, advanced control of loads, communication systems and optimization of distribution networks. She is the recipient of the leadership award in Smart Grid Acceleration from GridWeek in 2010.

Ms. Constance H. Lau was named president and chief executive officer of Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI) in May 2006. She also serves as chairman of Hawaiian Electric Company and chairman of American Savings Bank, HEI’s two principal operating subsidiaries.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Lau joined the HEI companies in 1984, serving in many officer and director positions, including serving as an HEI director from 2006 and during 2001 to 2004. She is also a director and audit chair of Matson, Inc., the major shipping carrier to Hawaii.

Since 2012, Lau has chaired the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, which advises President Barack Obama through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the security of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors and their information systems, including both the energy and financial services sectors. In energy, she was named 2011 Woman of the Year by the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment. Lau is a member of the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council and serves on the boards of the Electric Power Research Institute, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Associated Electrical & Gas Insurance Services. In banking, she is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Twelfth District Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council, and she was one of U.S. Banker’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking for 2004, 2005, and 2006, when she headed American Savings Bank. Lau also serves on the boards of the Hawaii Business Roundtable, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Punahou School, and the Consuelo Foundation, which helps women, children, and families in Hawaii and the Philippines.

Lau graduated from Yale College with a BS in Administrative Sciences. She earned a JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is married to Russell Lau, vice chairman of Finance Enterprises, Ltd., and has three children.

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C3E 2014: Award for Research Leadership Presented to Sila Kiliccote
2014 Women in Clean Energy Symposium C3E 2014: Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership Presented to Lisa Dyson, Chief Executive Officer of Kiverdi, Inc.
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 16 & 17, 2014. The theme for this year's symposium was Urban Strategies for a New Energy Future. Learn more at c3eawards.org

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

About the Speakers

Lisa Dyson Chief Executive Officer, Kiverdi, Inc.

Dr. Dyson is the CEO of Kiverdi, a next-generation sustainable oil company that converts CO2 and waste carbon gases into customized oils using the power of biotechnology. Dr. Dyson’s technical background began with a PhD in physics from MIT and has included research in bioengineering, energy and physics at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Princeton University, UC San Francisco, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Dr. Dyson was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, where she received a Master of Science degree, and has degrees in physics and mathematics from Brandeis University.

Dr. Dyson has broad business experience developing corporate strategies in a number of industries including in packaging, energy, automotive, chemicals, telecommunications, travel, and non-profits. While at The Boston Consulting Group, Dr. Dyson worked with executives at multi-national corporations to help them solve strategic business problems including cutting operational costs, expanding internationally, franchising, developing governance structures, designing effective organizations and developing market entry strategies. Dr. Dyson’s entrepreneurial background began when she was on the founding team of an MIT start-up that received funding from Microsoft and later built and led a team that developed a technology that reached millions in volunteering campaigns.

Among her recent accolades, Dr. Dyson was honored this year by the San Francisco Business Times as “One of the Most Influential Women in the Bay Area” for a second year in a row and was given their “Forty Under 40” award for her leadership.

Ms. Susan Petty is the Chief Technology Officer, President, and co-founder of AltaRock Energy, Inc. With more than 30 years of experience in the geothermal industry, her work has included all aspects of testing, evaluation, analysis, modeling, and optimization for geothermal wells, wellfields, and power plants. Petty has also negotiated geothermal lease agreements, power sales agreements, geothermal project financing agreements, and geothermal property sales and purchases, and she has completed policy studies for state and federal agencies. She has driven geothermal electrical generation projects in locations around the world, including California, Nevada, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Central America.

In addition to her extensive experience in the private sector, Petty has worked with the U.S. Department of Energy in performing policy studies on the economic modeling of geothermal pricing and the impact of technology improvement on the cost of geothermal power. She has been instrumental in developing information, planning, and designing software for use in developing public policy in geothermal energy.

Petty holds a BA from Princeton University in Geology and an MS in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Hawaii.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, panelists Alison Silverstein, Ann Berwick and Caroline Choi are lead by moderater and C3E Ambassador Katherine Hamilton in a discussion around "The Future Grid: Increased Clean Energy Integration and Reliability." Utilities are under pressure to modernize the grid using intelligent systems to achieve resilience and reliability. The panel explores the best ways to achieve a smart and green grid, as the share of the population living in urban areas grows and decentralized power producers proliferate.

About the Speakers

Katherine Hamilton is a principal at 38 North Solutions, a public policy firm focused on clean energy and innovation. Katherine served as President of the GridWise Alliance, advocating for nearly $5 billion in funding for smart grid projects in the Recovery Act. Prior to that role, Katherine was a policy advisor for Good Energies, Inc., a private investment company with a portfolio in clean energy technologies of nearly $6 billion. She co-directed the American Bioenergy Association, working with the states of Maryland and New Jersey to develop renewable portfolio standards. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Katherine led buildings research and then managed government relations in Washington, DC. Katherine spent a decade at Virginia Power, designing overhead and underground electrical systems for commercial and residential developments. Katherine studied electrical engineering at Northern Virginia Community College and holds degrees from Cornell University and the Sorbonne. Katherine is part of The Energy Gang podcast through Greentech Media.

Alison SilversteinPresident, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy

Alison Silverstein is a consultant, lecturer and writer on electric transmission and reliability, energy efficiency, smart grid, renewable energy and technology adoption issues. She does extensive work on electric transmission issues for the U.S. Department of Energy, including work on the Department’s National Electric Transmission Congestion Studies. Silverstein serves as project manager for the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (a collaboration between DOE and the electric industry) and recently facilitated the multi-stakeholder Reliability Standards Working Group in Hawaii. She also advises a variety of private and governmental clients on technology, regulatory and other issues, and regularly reviews R&D projects for the U.S. Department of Energy R&D programs, Bonneville Power Administration, ARPA-e, and the Hawaii Renewable Energy Development Venture.

Silverstein is President of the Board of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and serves on the Board of Economic and Environmental Systems of the National Research Council and the Board of the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. She is a member emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council.

Silverstein worked as Senior Energy Policy Advisor to Chairman Pat Wood, III, at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from July 2001 through July 2004. She was a co-chair of the Electric Systems Investigation for the US-Canada Joint Power System Outage Task Force and principal author of the Interim and Final Blackout Reports on the 2003 Northeast blackout. Before moving to the FERC, she worked as Advisor to Chairman Wood at the Public Utility Commission of Texas for six years, covering both electricity and telecommunications matters. Silverstein has also worked for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., ICF Inc., the Environmental Law Institute, and the U.S. Department of Interior.

Silverstein has a BA in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University, an MSE in Systems Analysis from Johns Hopkins, and an MBA from Stanford University. She lives with her family near Austin, Texas.

Ann Berwick Chair, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities

Ann Berwick was appointed Chair of the Department of Public Utilities by Governor Deval Patrick in June, 2010. She is also the president of the New England States Committee on Electricity and a member of the state’s Energy Facility Siting Board.

Prior to being appointed chair of the DPU, Ann was the Commonwealth’s Undersecretary for Energy and also served as Acting Chair of the Energy Facility Siting Board. As Undersecretary, Ann was a key participant in the development of the Green Communities Act, the Patrick Administration’s signature energy legislation, and worked closely on its implementation with the state’s Department of Energy Resources and Department of Public Utilities. Ann worked with those agencies on a range of issues, including the introduction of a more progressive building code and the development of renewable resources in the Commonwealth.

Before serving in the Patrick Administration Ann was a senior consultant at M.J. Bradley & Associates in Concord, Massachusetts. In that role she advised non-profit organizations and electric distribution and generating companies on a wide range of issues, including developments in state and federal energy and environmental law, regulation, and policy.

Ann served as Chief of the Environmental Protection Division in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office from 1991 to 1996, where she exercised joint oversight of the Massachusetts Environmental Strike Force. From 1996 to 1997 she worked in the Alaska Attorney General’s Office, where she participated in litigation before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. She has also been a legal services attorney, and a partner in the litigation department at the Boston law firm Goulston & Storrs.

Ann holds a B.A. from Radcliffe College and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. She has four grown children and lives in Newton with her husband.

Caroline Choi is vice president, Integrated Planning and Environmental Affairs for Southern California Edison (SCE), responsible for analysis of critical federal and state energy and environmental policy, as well as analysis and development of an integrated, long-term environmental and energy strategy for SCE.

Prior to joining SCE in 2012, Choi was executive director of Environmental Services & Strategy at Progress Energy, where she was responsible for leading environmental permitting, compliance and policy. She served the company in various roles, including director, Energy Policy & Strategy, and manager, Federal Public Affairs. Choi has served on various non-profit boards and is a board member of the National Forest Foundation and the California Advisory Board of The Trust for Public Lands. Choi has a bachelor’s degree in government from Dartmouth College.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this video, Dr. Amy Glasmeier, Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning at MIT, outlines the key issues to be addressed at the conference. Dr Glasmeier's talk is prefaced by MITEI Executive Director Martha Broad and U.S. Department of Energy Senior Advisor to the Secretary Ahsha Tribble welcome guests to the first day of the symposium.

About the Speaker

Dr. Amy Glasmeier holds a professional masters and PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2009 to 2013, she was the Department Head of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She serves as a professor of economic geography and regional planning and is Co-Chair of the Energy Education Task Force of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI).

She received a Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) at the Association’s annual meeting in 2014 for her data-rich insights into the geographies of economic development and planning, her research on patterns and trends in rural poverty in America, and her outstanding efforts to understand and inform public policy.

Glasmeier is the author and co-author of several monographs – including Manufacturing Time: Global Competition in the World Watch Industry 1750-2000; High-tech Potential: Economic Development in Rural America; From Combines to Computers: Rural Services and Development in the Age of Information Technology; and High Tech America – as well as the Atlas of Poverty in America. These books reflect the topics of her articles, book chapters and policy reports where she has provided important insights into the development of industrial complexes and high-tech industries, geographies of trade policy and globalization, the failures and successes of efforts to end poverty, and the landscape of inequality in the United States.

Her work assesses public policy through careful empirical analysis of economic and census data. One key contribution is Glasmeier’s focus on the unintended effects of public policy, especially in rural America, documenting the impacts of NAFTA, high-tech industries and federal economic development programs on the poor and the prosperity of rural communities.

Glasmeier’s research and policy contributions in the field of energy dateback to 1970s, when she contributed to the first California university system-wide public outreach program around renewable energy. During the 1980s Glasmeier developed expertise in the fields of boomtown impact analysis and energy development in the western United States.

For almost two decades, Glasmeier provided key technical support for the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal state agency with geographic responsibility for economic and social development of the nation’s eastern coalfields, among the poorest communities in the US. As part of a team, Glasmeier developed the agency’s first region-wide energy policy, departing significantly from the previous reliance on coal toward a more balanced program emphasizing renewable and non renewable energy sources. Subsequently, she conducted several research projects dissecting the economic competitiveness of US renewable energy firms in several industries.

Since arriving at MIT, Glasmeier has taught classes on global energy industry and policy. Committed to informing public policy in the United States, she has completed a large number of policy reports for agencies and organizations that include the Ford Foundation, HUD, USDA Economic Research Service, The Appalachian Regional Commission, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, the Economic Policy Institute, the Aspen Institute, and the Department of Defense.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this fascinating presentation, Dr. Heather Foust-Cummings speaks about gender stereotypes and bias in the workplace.

About the Speaker

Heather Foust-Cummings, PhD, leads the Catalyst Research Center for Equity in Business Leadership with a focus on understanding relationships between diversity, corporate governance, and board and firm performance. As part of the tenth anniversary Catalyst Census of Women Board Directors of the Fortune 500, Dr. Foust-Cummings profiled the experiences of women board directors of companies that had demonstrated a sustained commitment over time to having a significant proportion of women on the board. Additionally, she examines the role of sponsors in influencing the advancement and retention of senior-level and high-potential women and men, which she speaks about frequently.

Prior to joining Catalyst, Dr. Foust-Cummings taught at Columbia University and conducted brand analyses for the Corporate Research Department at Young & Rubicam. Dr. Foust-Cummings received her PhD and MA in Political Science and a Certificate in Women’s Studies from Emory University; she received her BS in Political Science and Secondary Education from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The goal of the Symposium is to provide women in clean energy with a range of perspectives on clean energy challenges and opportunities. It also provides a forum for networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in clean energy.

In this welcome address, MITEI Executive Director Martha Broad and U.S. Department of Energy Senior Advisor to the Secretary Ahsha Tribble welcome guests to the first day of the symposium.

About the Speakers

Martha BroadExecutive Director, MIT Energy Initiative Ms. Martha Broad is the Executive Director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), which addresses global energy challenges through member-sponsored research, education, and outreach programs. As part of the MITEI leadership team, she is helping to link science, innovation, and policy to transform the world’s energy systems.

With more than 20 years of experience in organizational management in the energy and sustainability fields, Broad has worked extensively with business, government, and nonprofit stakeholders to forge successful public-private partnerships. She works closely with MIT member companies who together have pledged over $30 million annually for MIT research on a spectrum of topics, including energy storage, energy efficiency, and renewable energy technologies.

Prior to MITEI, Broad was the Director of Knowledge Development at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, the first state agency to focus primarily on clean energy economic development. During her nine-year tenure, she managed a number of award-winning programs related to green electricity, wind development, and the commercialization of clean energy technologies.

Broad began her career as a Capitol Hill lobbyist for the Natural Resources Defense Council, earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and subsequently launched and managed two successful green companies: a unique for-profit green auto insurance agency owned by the Conservation Law Foundation, and the Rainforest Crunch (candy) Company, a Ben and Jerry’s spin-off that sourced sustainably harvested Amazon rainforest ingredients and donated profits to rainforest preservation.

Ahsha TribbleSenior Advisor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy As a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ahsha Tribble works across the Department to define and integrate capabilities to carry out DOE’s responsibilities for emergency response, incident management, and Department and industry preparedness and short-term resilience actions – all in service of the Department’s efforts to enhance the security, reliability, and resilience of the nation’s energy infrastructure. Her role is a key part of the Secretary’s emphasis on strengthening management and performance across DOE. Prior to DOE, Dr. Tribble served over three years on the White House National Security Council. During that time, she served as the interim Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, Senior Director for Response, and Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience. She led or supported the White House response coordination for major disasters including Hurricanes Sandy and Irene; the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster; major flooding on the Mississippi River and in Colorado; numerous tornado outbreaks; and the West, Texas chemical plant explosion. Prior to joining NSC, Dr. Tribble spent ten years in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Dr. Tribble received her B.S. in Mathematics/Actuarial Science (with a Minor in Business Administration) from Florida A&M University, M.S. in Meteorology from Florida State University, and Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma.

He was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Influential People who Shape Our World in 2006. In 2007, he was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is an author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and two books, including What We Know about Climate Change, recently hailed by the NY Times as "... the single best thing written about climate change for a general audience.”
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The Monterey Shale deposit in California is estimated to hold 15.4 billion barrels of oil, making it the largest shale deposit in the U.S. Since 2011, 1,250+ wells have been drilled and completed using hydraulic fracturing.

Earlier this year, Governor Brown signed into law the controversial bill SB4 that allows oil and gas companies to continue with fracking in California, but under tight regulation.

Critics worry about water and air pollution and the worsening effects on global warming, while the oil and gas industry touts the benefits that hydraulic fracturing will bring to the California economy.

So - is this a good thing or a bad thing? Come hear George King describe the real risks of hydraulic fracturing so that we can steer the conversation in the right direction.

George E. King is a registered professional engineer in multiple states with 42 years of worldwide oil and gas industry experience in most aspects of well construction and failure analysis. His work has focused on fracturing, well construction risk analysis, unconventional formations, sand control, and perforating.

George holds a Chemistry degree from Oklahoma State University and a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa. He was awarded the 2012 Engineer of the Year from the Texas Society of Professional Engineers and the 2004 Society of Petroleum Engineers Production Operations Award. He has written 68 technical papers, journal articles and book chapters.
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Additionally, many young companies are finding that funding is becoming increasingly more difficult for them. It's no secret that many venture capital firms have left the energy & cleantech space, so some companies are looking to non-traditional investors, such as hedge funds and corporate strategics, to make up the difference.

Please join us on December 5th to hear from some of Silicon Valley’s most insightful investors about the changing funding trends in the industry and the new strategies being adopted by both companies and investors alike.

Gerbrand Ceder is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT. He received an engineering degree from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991.

Dr. Ceder’s research interests lie in the design of novel materials for energy generation and storage, including battery materials, thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, and photocatalysts. He has worked for 18 years in the Li-battery field, optimizing several new electrodes materials and has regularly served as scientific advisor to companies and investors in this area. He has published over 300 scientific papers, and holds several U.S. patents.

He has served on MIT’s Energy Council as well as on several Department of Energy committees, including the workgroup preparing the Basic Needs for Electrical Energy Storage report. He has received the MRS Gold Medal, the Battery Research Award from the Electrochemical Society for his work on understanding battery materials, the Career Award from the National Science Foundation, and the Robert Lansing Hardy Award from The Metals, Minerals and Materials Society. He is a co-founder of Computational Modeling Consultants, Pellion Technologies, and The Materials Project.

Dr. Ceder’s work on high-throughput computing was the inspiration of the Presidential Materials Genome Initiative.
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The Materials Genome Initiative - Gerbrand Ceder - MIT Club of Northern California
Energy and Clean Tech Series Residential Solar: Is the Market Ready to Explode? - MIT Club of Northern California
Please join us on September 26th to hear from the CEOs and advocates who enable this revolution as they discuss the next steps in bringing solar to every roof.

Massachusetts is widely recognized as a leader in clean energy – ranking first in the nation in energy efficiency and having installed more than 300 megawatts of solar and wind capacity in the last six years. These accomplishments take on even greater significance in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, which brought the urgent need for climate adaptation into sharp focus and underscored the critical importance of climate change mitigation through a strong clean energy agenda. Governor Deval Patrick reflects on the Commonwealth’s leadership in clean energy and efforts to stay the course as economic challenges persist and climate vulnerabilities grow.]]>
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Earth Day 2013 - Securing our Clean Energy Future in Massachusetts
MIT Energy Initiative Strano-Enhancing_Materials_with_Graphene_LinksWed, 24 Apr 2013 12:40:42 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/23909-strano-enhancing_materials_with_graphene_links
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Faculty Short-Clips Oil Dependence, ‘Oilpacity,’ and U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa
April 9, 2013

Kairn Klieman, University of Houston

Abstract
Present-day oil producers in Africa suffer from the “oil curse” or the “natural resource curse”; despite massive influxes of oil revenues, economies stagnate, standards of living decline, and governments become increasingly authoritarian and corrupt. Western institutions and governments currently insist on increased “transparency” as a solution, focusing on policies that reduce possibilities for the misappropriation of oil revenues by the African elite. Drawing on historical data from U.S. and African archives, this paper will argue that petroleum, as the most necessary and strategic commodity of the 20th century, generated a plethora of forms of opacity involving a much wider array of actors. By analyzing the role of U.S. oil companies and U.S. foreign policy in Africa since 1940, new insights are provided as to the origins of the oil curse, the political impact of oil dependence in Africa, and the complex networks of “oilpacity” (as per Coronil) that aided U.S. economic expansion after World War II.]]>
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Oil Dependence, ‘Oilpacity,’ and U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa
MIT Energy Initiative Delivering Green: Three Case Studies in Carbon-Efficient Logistics
Logistics is a leading source of carbon. Nearly 6 percent of the greenhouse gases generated by humans come from the flow of products to consumers.

Reducing these emissions takes more than setting goals; it requires clear, measurable initiatives that hit sustainability targets while delivering lower costs and higher service levels.

Three companies, Boise Inc., Caterpillar Inc., and Ocean Spray, in collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the MIT Center for Transportation (MIT CTL), have completed carbon-reduction projects that meet these goals. The results are now available in three compelling case studies.

MIT CTL invites you to hear these stories by attending our next webinar, Delivering Green: Three Case Studies in Carbon-Efficient Logistics, on April 17th, 2013, at 1pm EST, the third event in MIT CTL’s Advances in Supply Chain webinar series. Learn how these companies slowed the growth of logistics-related emissions through mode shifting, load consolidation, and network redesign – and captured cost savings as well as service improvements.

Dr. Edgar Blanco, MIT CTL, will be joined by EDF’s Jason Mathers, Ross Corthell from Boise, Kristine Young from Ocean Spray, and Zena Onstott from Caterpillar to share their insights from these projects.

Speaker

John Kitchin, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract

Electrochemical water splitting may be in integral part of future energy storage strategies by enabling energy storage in chemical bonds. One of the primary sources of inefficiency in the water splitting reaction is the oxygen evolution reaction, which has high reaction barriers that require additional applied electric potential to drive the reactions at practical rates. The most active electrode materials in acid electrolytes include ruthenium and iridium oxides, which are expensive but necessary for stability. In alkaline environments, many base metal oxides become stable, although they are still less active than Ru and Ir oxides. It has been known that small amounts of Fe can promote the electrochemical activity of nickel oxides, making it almost as active as cobalt oxide. We have investigated the mechanisms behind the promotion using in situ Raman and synchrotron spectroscopies as well as ex situ characterization techniques. Interestingly, we found the electrode changes under oxygen evolution conditions, turning from an oxide to an oxyhydroxide phase. Furthermore, the composition of the electrolyte has a significant effect on the oxygen evolution activity. We will discuss these results and their implications in finding better oxygen evolution electrocatalysts.

Speaker

Richard Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science

Abstract

The prospects for nuclear power vary widely from country to country as a result of many factors, ranging from the costs of alternatives, the response to the Fukushima accident, differing approaches to energy security, concerns about nuclear waste, and other factors. These changes in the coming years will dramatically affect progress on matters relating to safety, security and safeguards. The talk will explore the changing role of nuclear power around the globe and its implications.

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MITEI Seminar Series Massachusetts Confronts Climate Change: Action at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Policy
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is deeply engaged in responding to climate variability through the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 and a Climate Change Adaptation report released in 2011. State officials join MIT faculty for this panel discussing why a strong approach combining mitigation and adaption is so urgently needed, and how Massachusetts is rising to the challenge.

The idea behind Energy Cache is to store and later release energy using “gravel on ski lifts.” In a California pilot installation (watch demo video), Fyke was able to model a grid-level energy storage system that would satisfy risk-averse customers by leveraging the cheapest, densest materials and a proven technology (see earlier story).

Fyke’s post-MIT path mirrored the excitement and turmoil of renewable energy during the 2000s. Working at two small manufacturing companies and then at an Australian venture capital firm as its renewables lead, he rode increasing investor interest in the clean-tech sector right up through the global financial crisis in 2008. Then oil prices crashed, and the collapse of stock prices meant that large investors found their portfolios overweighted in private equity, further drying up clean-tech funding.

“What else could go wrong?” Fyke said at the December 7 webinar titled "Building a Blockbuster Energy Storage Company by Leveraging Proven Technology, or How I'll Save the World with Gravel on Ski Lifts.”

There have been other challenges since 2008. The bankruptcy of federally backed Solyndra made it difficult to obtain public investment in early-stage technologies, and the wild success of Instagram and other Internet companies made investors even less likely to support the longer development cycles of renewable technology.

Why did Fyke persist in the clean-tech market? Because, as he put it, “there are billion-dollar opportunities in the Internet, but trillion-dollar opportunities in energy.” With the support of incubator/investor Idealab, Fyke was able to spend 18 months on market discovery and solution generation rather than plunging forward with the technology of the moment.

The current standard solution for grid-level renewable energy storage is pumped hydro. Building on his experience and LGO training, Fyke modeled a solution close enough to pumped hydro to satisfy cautious customers, but with greater flexibility and lower cost.

“Without even knowing what the solution was going to be, we knew the parameters, and this led us to gravel,” Fyke said. He and his colleagues pulled together established technologies from mining and ski resorts and created the “gravel on a ski lift” pilot in California.

Energy Cache’s potential customers include not just utilities but large mining companies on remote sites who need lots of 24/7 energy and have plenty of renewable energy sources available (plus gravel).

In putting together alliances of venture capitalists, mining industry people, and technologists of various stripes, Fyke says he built on the flexibility he gained from his LGO experience. “Being able to take on multiple, undefined roles is a big thing,” he said, echoing other LGO alumni speakers who’ve cited this ability in careers that encompass multiple industries and functions. Now Fyke and his company look forward to being part of a leap in renewable energy’s share of global energy use.

Speaker

Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency

Abstract

The foundations of the global energy system are shifting, with a resurgence in oil and gas production in some countries, a retreat from nuclear power signalled in some others and signs of increasing policy focus on energy efficiency. Against this backdrop, the World Energy Outlook 2012 brings together the latest data and policy developments to present up to date, authoritative projections of energy trends through to 2035 and insights into what they mean for energy security, environmental sustainability and economic development. Oil, coal, natural gas, renewables and nuclear power are all covered, together with an update on climate change issues.

Pine duBois, Executive Director of the Jones River Watershed Association, President of Jones River Landing Environmental Heritage Center, and Cape Cod Bay Watch Partner, has been a local environmental advocate for over thirty years.

Karen Vale, Campaign Coordinator at Cape Cod Bay Watch, is a Wildlife Biologist and has a decade of experience with wildlife and natural resource research and campaigning.

Natural gas, discovered recently in coastal East Africa, has the potential to change the development equation in regional economic development and planning. Natural gas is coming ashore in Mtwara, Tanzania, a relatively undeveloped region in south-eastern Tanzania, which is creating opportunities and very serious social and environmental challenges. Colonel (Retd) Joseph Simbakalia, Regional Commissioner of Mtwara, is responsible for charting the future economic development plan for Mtwara. He will present the case to the audience and a distinguished faculty panel. This will be followed by responsive remarks from the panel, and an open question and answer period.

The panel:

Rob Stoner, MITEI Associate Director & moderator

Professor Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy School

Professor Donald Lessard, Sloan International Management

Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, DUSP-International Development Group

This seminar was co-sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP).

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Regional Economic & Development Planning in East Africa: Natural Gas – Fueling Tanzania Forward
MIT Energy Initiative MIT Soap Box - Climate and ConflictFri, 02 Nov 2012 10:18:41 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21473-mit-soap-box-climate-and-conflict
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MIT Soap Box - Climate and Conflict
MIT Museum Career Paths for PhDs in Energy Industry
Find out what people in the energy field are doing and how to connect your research to real world issues. A panel of speakers share their career path stories and discuss various career options for entry in an energy related field. The speakers span science and engineering disciplines, including:

Organized by the GSC Academics, Research, and Careers Committee (GSC ARC). Filmed by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE).

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Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:42:52 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21443-career-paths-for-phds-in-energy-industry
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Career Paths for PhDs in Energy Industry
Professional and personal development A scientist's eye view of research for sustainable energyOctober 24, 2012

Speaker

Ellen Williams, Chief Scientist, BP

Abstract

We face one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century: providing more and more energy to meet rising demand, but keeping it affordable, secure, reliable and sustainable. But ‘sustainable’ means different things to different people – from discovering and recovering more oil and gas to minimizing the constraints on natural resources used in energy. In this talk, Ellen Williams will outline the importance of scientific research to both finding new solutions and providing trusted data to underpin informed decisions about energy, water, land and minerals.

She will also discuss the importance of effective industry/academic research partnerships to address the challenges of sustainable energy and illustrate this with examples of BP collaboration with MIT and other leading academic institutions.

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Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:28:18 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21418-a-scientist-s-eye-view-of-research-for-sustainable-energy
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A scientist's eye view of research for sustainable energy
MIT Energy Initiative Smart Grid - Opportunities for Innovation - MIT Club of Northern CaliforniaNeil Armstrong once said that our electric grid was one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century. Yet, in the next few decades, our electric grid will need to be modernized to meet the evolving energy challenges of the 21st century. These include increasing renewable energy generation and dealing with the proliferation of distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage, and smart appliances, while keeping electric energy supply inexpensive and reliable.

But with challenges come opportunities for innovation. New technologies such as grid data networking, smart meters, analytics and demand response algorithms will help modernize our electric grid and benefit consumers and utilities alike through enhanced energy efficiency, improved reliability, the ability to integrate new sources of energy generation, including at the local level.

What new technologies, solutions, and business model innovations are required to allow a Smart Grid to be able to realize its potential to deliver these benefits, including adapting to emerging;distributed energy resources?

Smart Meters, aka advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), have been deployed throughout the state, but Time-of-Use (TOU) rates or dynamic pricing have not yet been implemented. Will they be mandated so consumers can start managing their energy bills better?

With the smart grid, more energy devices will be networked and a lot of Big Data will flow. What innovations are needed to be able to analyze the data and optimize supply and demand in order to deliver benefits to energy providers and consumers.

Please join us to learn about the numerous Smart Grid innovation opportunities from top executives of leading smart grid companies in the Bay Area!

Speaker

Abstract

Green-sulfur bacteria is a remarkable organism that can carry out photosynthesis in low-light conditions such as those present in the bottom of the ocean or moonlight. In this talk, geared for a general scientific audience, I will describe my group's efforts to understand how this organism harvests sunlight so efficiently. I will proceed to describe the possible implications of these light-harvesting mechanisms for enhancing energy transport in organic materials. I will end by briefly discussing our screening efforts for materials for organic solar cells using computer time from distributed donors around the world.

About the Speaker

Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik is currently Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, where he started his independent career in 2006. Alán received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1999. He received the Gabino Barreda Medal from UNAM, which prizes the top achiever in each field of study. After receiving his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, under Professor William A. Lester, Jr., he was a postdoctoral scholar in the group of Martin Head-Gordon at UC Berkeley from 2005-2006.

Professor Aspuru-Guzik carries out research at the interface of quantum information and chemistry. In particular, he is interested in the use of quantum computers and dedicated quantum simulators for chemical systems. He has studied the role of quantum coherence in excitonic energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes, and developed methodology for studying the spectroscopy of molecules in nanoscale environments. He and his group recently developed a density functional theory for open quantum systems. He leads the Clean Energy Project: a distributed computing effort for screening renewable energy materials.

In 2009, Professor Aspuru-Guzik recently received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award and the Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2010, he received the Everett-Mendelsson Graduate Mentoring Award and received the HP Outstanding Junior Faculty award by the Computers in Chemistry division of the American Chemical Society. In the same year, he was selected as a Top Innovator Under 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review magazine.

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Learning from Nature: Bacterial light harvesting antennas and perspectives for new organic materials for solar cells
MIT Energy Initiative Soapbox - Climate and ConflictTue, 09 Oct 2012 14:33:35 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21208-soapbox-climate-and-conflict
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Soapbox - Climate and Conflict
MIT Museum C3E 2012: Challenges and Opportunities for Energy Policy
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

About the Speakers

Moderator

Prof. Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics and in energy technology and policy studies, which is his current research focus.

Previously, Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy, where he had programmatic oversight responsibility for several offices. He also served as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. He is a member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and of the DOE Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.

Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens, the University of Erlangen-Nurenburg, and Michigan State University.

Panelists

Ms. Kateri Callahan brings more than 20 years of experience in policy advocacy, fundraising, coalition building, and organizational management to her position as the president of the Alliance to Save Energy. Serving as president of the Alliance since January 2003, she works with the Alliance Board of Directors, which includes Members of Congress, state and local officials and top corporate and NGO executives, to establish and oversee the core objectives and strategic plans for the organization, whose mission is to advance energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security.

Ms. Callahan also serves on the Keystone Center Energy Board and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy. She also serves on an advisory council to the periodical Better Homes and Gardens and to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 21st Century Energy Institute. In June 2009, Ms. Callahan was among the 23 inaugural inductees to the new Energy Efficiency Hall of Fame established by Johnson Controls Inc. and the United States Energy Association. Mary Anne Sullivan, Partner, Hogan Lovells.

Ms. Lisa Epifani advises a range of clients on energy and environmental matters, with a special focus on climate change strategy, oil and natural gas issues, nuclear policy, and financial regulations. Her clients include industry coalitions, financial institutions, oil and gas pipelines, and think tanks. Ms. Epifani’s thorough understanding of climate and energy policy combined with her political background provides clients with strategic solutions and thorough legal advice.

Before joining the firm in April 2009, Ms. Epifani was appointed Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy (DOE) for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs by President George W. Bush. During her tenure, she promoted the Administration’s energy policies and negotiated positions on appropriations and authorization bills, such as the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Ms. Epifani also served at the White House on the National Economic Council as a Special Assistant to the President. Before her Administration tenure, she was a lead Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee staffer for then-Chairman Domenici, and worked on key provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Ms. Dian Grueneich is the Founder and Principal at Dian Grueneich Consulting, LLC. In 2005, she was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission for a six-year term, where she was the lead commissioner on energy efficiency. She oversaw development of the California Long-Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan, which resulted in a three-year, $3.8 billion program. She also led California’s adoption of “decoupling plus” and net-zero energy building goals, and was a key participant in establishing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) State Energy Efficiency Action Network.

She has received many awards including the Energy Efficiency Global Forum’s first Visionary Award for energy leadership and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s National Champion of Energy Efficiency Award. She is also a member of several committees and boards, the Leadership Council of the China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance, the Advisory Council of Stanford University’s Precourt Energy Institute and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, the Global Cool Cities Alliance Board, and the Advanced Energy Economy Advisory Board.

Ms. Grueneich has a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and a JD from Georgetown University.

The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

A former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy and state public utility commissioner, she is a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s energy project and the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board. She has been appointed to the National Petroleum Council.

David Sandalow, Acting Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy

The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

Introduced by Caroline McGregor of the US Department of Energy (DOE), David Sandalow, Acting Under Secretary for the US DOE wraps up the day by sharing his vision of the future and the role energy will play in it.

About the Speaker

As Under Secretary of Energy (Acting), Mr. David Sandalow helps oversee the Department of Energy’s renewable energy, energy efficiency, fossil energy, nuclear energy and electricity delivery programs. As Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs, he helps coordinate policy and manage international activities at the Department. Prior to being confirmed as Assistant Secretary, Mr. Sandalow was Energy & Environment Scholar and a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, as well as Energy & Climate Change Working Group Chair at the Clinton Global Initiative. He is the author of Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and editor of Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington? (Brookings Press, 2009). He has written widely on energy and environmental policy, including op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times and other publications.

Previously, Mr. Sandalow served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment & Science, a Senior Director on the National Security Council staff, an Associate Director on the staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Executive Vice President, World Wildlife Fund - U.S. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (JD) and Yale College (BA Philosophy).

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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:08:56 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21152-c3e-2012-looking-ahead-to-the-fourth-clean-energy-ministerial
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C3E 2012: Looking Ahead to the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial
MIT Energy Initiative C3E 2012: Mobilizing Change in the Private Sector
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

Here you can see Kim Saylors-Laster of Wal-Mart International moderate a panel discussing changing existing systems based on new ideas. Jennifer Rumsey, Executive Director, Heavy-Duty Engineering at Cummins; Johanna Wellington, Advanced Technology Leader for Sustainable Energy at GE Global Research; and Terry Wood, Technology Vice President, Planning and Communications at BP Group Technology serve as panelists.

About the Speakers

Moderator

Ms. Kim Saylors-Laster is the Vice President of Energy for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Ms. Saylors-Laster and her team are responsible for the natural gas procurement within the United States, the electricity procurement in the US and the UK, as well as providing guidance to energy markets within Wal-Mart’s International trade areas. Ms. Saylors-Laster is an executive champion of a number of renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives within the Wal-Mart Sustainability Networks. Since joining Wal-Mart in 1994, Ms. Saylors-Laster held leadership roles on the Real Estate and Global Compliance teams before joining the Energy team in 2006.

In addition to her Wal-Mart service, Ms. Saylors-Laster is on the Board of Advisors for the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, the Texas Energy Management and Innovation Advisory Board at the McCombs School of Business, and is a Board Member for Empower-A-Child, International, a US non-profit organization serving orphaned children in Uganda and Kenya. Ms. Saylors-Laster is an Arkansas licensed attorney, an Arkansas Licensed Associate Counselor, and a volunteer counselor at the Samaritan Community Center in Rogers, Arkansas.

Panelists

Ms. Jennifer Rumsey is currently the Executive Director of Heavy Duty Engineering at Cummins. In this role she is responsible for the new product development and product support for Cummins 10-15 liter engines. Her early career focused on control systems and system engineering; initially at a fuel processing and fuel cell start-up company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2000 she moved to Cummins to work on alternate fuels and the early aftertreatment technology development. She led the off-highway Tier 4 Interim Advanced Engineering program then moved to product development as the Technical Leader for the Tier 4 Interim QSB6.7 program. From 2009-2010 she led the Quality group for Cummins Turbo Technology.

Ms. Rumsey was awarded the Outstanding Young Engineer award by the Society of Automotive Engineers Off-Highway Sector, received the Cummins Chairman’s Quality Award, and has been recognized as one of Purdue Universities 40 under 40 alumni. She is a member of the Society of Women Engineers and Pi Tau Sigma, an engineering honor society. She holds a BSME from Purdue University and a MSME from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ms. Johanna Wellington is the Advanced Technology Leader for Sustainable Energy at GE Global Research. She leads a broad portfolio of advanced technology research focused on sustainable energy and water solutions. Specific research focus areas include renewables, carbon management, energy efficiency, smart grid enhancements, and low cost water solutions. Previously, Ms. Wellington worked with GE Power Systems as a Combustion Design Engineer where she gained a strong technical foundation, earned her blackbelt certification and held roles of increasing responsibility. She then joined the Power Generation Technology Laboratory, first as Technical Leader then as Lab Manager. She joined the Quality Organization as a Master Blackbelt before accepting the role of General Manager, Accessory Systems Engineering. She then served as the General Manager for the Generator & Electrical Systems Engineering Department.

Ms. Wellington earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Union College and a Masters in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Ms. Terry Wood is the Technology Vice President for Strategy, Planning and Communications for BP Group Technology. She has a wide range of experience in Upstream, Refining and Marketing, and Petrochemicals. In her current role, she is responsible for the development of Group Technology strategy, forward planning for the Technology function, building technical capability and sharing best practices.

Prior to this role, she led technology development and delivery in the areas of Solar, Wind, Gas Power and championed project, engineering and HSSE as the TVP for Alternative Energy. Previously, Ms. Wood was the Director of Engineering Excellence for Upstream. She also held roles as Head of Engineering for BP Petrochemicals and Business Technology Manager for Olefins Europe, managing R&D, project and technical services activities.

Ms. Wood holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and has over 30 years of experience with BP.

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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:24:46 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21150-c3e-2012-mobilizing-change-in-the-private-sector
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C3E 2012: Mobilizing Change in the Private Sector
MIT Energy Initiative C3E 2012: Taking Risks and Driving Ideas
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

Here you can see Martha Broad of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Council moderate a panel discussing the energy market from a business model perspective. Christine Ho, Co-founder and Head of Technology at Imprint Energy; Rachel Barge, Partner at Greenstart; Wendy Arienzo, CEO and Director of ArrayPower; and Sara Groen, Co-founder and Director of SURGE Accelerator serve as panelists.

About the Speakers

Moderator

Ms. Martha Broad is Director of Knowledge Development at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (Mass CEC) where she oversees the organization’s information strategy. MassCEC is the first state agency created to focus primarily on clean energy economic development. At MassCEC, Ms. Broad monitors trends in the industry, performs analyses, and disseminates information, including managing the research and publication of MassCEC’s major reports and the development of information tools.

Since 2004, Ms. Broad has managed a number of award-winning MassCEC programs related to green electricity, affordable housing and wind development. Her past work includes the start up and management of two successful green companies: a unique for-profit green auto insurance agency owned by the Conservation Law Foundation and the Rainforest Crunch Company, a gourmet candy company that sourced sustainably harvested Amazon rainforest ingredients and donated profits to rainforest preservation. She received her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College and has an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Panelists

Dr. Christine Ho is a co-founder and Head of Technology of Imprint Energy, a UC Berkeley spin-off commercializing a revolutionary printed battery technology of which Dr. Ho is the principal inventor. Imprint Energy, based in Alameda, CA, is developing technology to enable long lasting, low cost, rechargeable batteries composed of earth-abundant materials for today's and tomorrow's electronic devices.

Dr. Ho has her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Ms. Rachel Barge is a Partner at Greenstart, a venture firm and design studio for digital cleantech companies. Greenstart runs a “design accelerator” program where startups receive $115,000 and expert mentorship in business model, UX, brand and capital design. As head of communications at Greenstart, Rachel is charged with telling the stories of the entrepreneurs who are transforming the multi-trillion dollar energy market with software. Before coming to Greenstart, she founded Campus InPower, a national consultancy that implemented large-scale financial mechanisms for campus sustainability. During the first year of the initiative, Ms. Barge raised $16 million and trained over 2,000 students from over 250 universities. She then became Director of the Business Council on Climate Change and later Executive Director of CleantechU. As an undergraduate student, she helped establish a $2 million Green Fund that tripled the amount of capital available for campus sustainability at UC Berkeley.

Ms. Barge is winner of the David Brower Youth Award, the nation's top prize for young environmental leaders, as well as the Morris K. Udall Fellowship, a federal award recognizing top environmental leaders on college campuses. She holds a BS in Conservation & Resource Studies and Forestry from UC Berkeley.

Ms. Wendy Arienzo has extensive experience in the technology development sector, bringing 30 years of technical and management experience in the semiconductor industry to her current position as Chief Executive Officer and Director of ArrayPower, Inc. She previously worked at some of the leading companies in the technology industry, including IBM, Phillips and NXP Semiconductors. Ms. Arienzo began her career in the solar technology development field developing polycrystalline silicon cells in Florence, Italy.

Ms. Arienzo has received numerous accolades for her accomplishments and is a sought-after public speaker in the technology sector. She has been recognized by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Center for Economic Growth, a non-profit based in New York state promoting economic growth throughout the state’s capital region. Ms. Arienzo holds a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University. She received her combined bachelor’s/master’s degree in materials science engineering from Brown University.

Ms. Sarah Groen is the Co-founder and Director of SURGE Accelerator. A first for the energy industry, SURGE is a mentor-driven, seed accelerator designed to identify, prepare, and support innovators as they take their ideas to market. Over 100 mentors from the energy industry work with start-ups to "solve the worlds energy problems using software."

SURGE approaches energy as a holistic vertical-- clean energy companies benefit greatly from SURGE’s deep understanding of the market economics, regulatory constraints, and customer challenges that exist in the energy world. All SURGE companies benefit from overlapping mentors, customers, regulators, and a common framework for addressing energy challenges.

Ms. Groen manages relationships with hundreds of energy investors around the country, coordinates the investment process and program, and acts as a mentor to SURGE founders.

Prior to SURGE, Ms. Groen was a private equity investor, an oil & gas financial analyst, and a strategy consultant. She also has an MBA from Stanford University where she focused on entrepreneurship. Ms. Groen has been a guest at several speaking events on energy software, is an organizer of the Texas Cleanweb Hackathon, and acts as a mentor at Startup Weekend Houston.

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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:18:42 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21148-c3e-2012-taking-risks-and-driving-ideas
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C3E 2012: Taking Risks and Driving Ideas
MIT Energy Initiative C3E 2012: Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Millie Dresselhaus by MIT President Rafael Reif
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

MIT President Rafael Reif introduces two MIT alumnae who share their heart-warming stories of working with the award recipient as students. Dr. Reif then shares his own experiences and presents the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus.

About the Awardee

Professor Mildred Dresselhaus is an Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT. She is the co-author of four books on carbon science, and her research interests are in electronic materials, particularly in nanoscience and nanotechnology. She headed a national Department of Energy Study on "Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy," including hydrogen production, storage, and use, and she co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences Decadal Study on "Condensed Matter Materials Physics, CMMP2007."

Prof. Dresselhaus has served as the Director of the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Treasurer of the US National Academy of Sciences, President of the American Physical Society and Chair of the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics. She is a member of many societies and associations, including the US National Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Sciences Section of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Carbon Society.

Prof. Dresselhaus has received numerous awards, including the US National Medal of Science and most recently the Enrico Fermi Award and the Kavli Prize, along with 28 honorary doctorates worldwide. She began her higher education at Hunter College in New York City and received a Fulbright Fellowship to attend the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University. She received her master's degree at Radcliffe College and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

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C3E 2012: Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Millie Dresselhaus by MIT President Rafael Reif
MIT Energy Initiative C3E 2012: Moving Ideas From Laboratory to Marketplace
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

Here you can see Nancy Pfund of DBL Investors moderate a panel discussing innovation of new ideas into the energy market. Rachel Sheinbein, Partner, Energy and Materials at CMEA Capital; Kristina Johnson, CEO of Enduring Hydro; and Kathleen McGinty, Senior Vice President of Weston Solutions serve as panelists.

About the Speakers

Moderator

Ms. Nancy E. Pfund is Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Investors, a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, economic and environmental returns in the regions in which it invests. Ms. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors of several companies, including; BrightSource Energy, SolarCity, Solaria, Primus Power, Eco.logic Brands, EcoScraps, OPx Biotechnologies, Powergenix and, prior to their public offering, Tesla Motors and Pandora Media. Originally a regional venture capital group within JPMorgan, DBL Investors spun out as an independent firm in January 2008. Ms. Pfund joined JPMorgan (then Hambrecht & Quist) in 1984 first as a securities analyst and then as a Venture Capital Partner and Managing Director. Ms. Pfund is also a member of the board of directors of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF); Advisor to the CalCEF Angel Fund; member of the Advisory Board of the UC Davis Center for Energy Efficiency; member of the Advisory Council of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University; member of the Advisory Council of the Milken Institute’s Center for a Sustainable Energy Future; and is a founding officer and director of ABC2, a foundation aimed at accelerating a cure for brain cancer. Ms. Pfund is the author, along with Benjamin Healey of the widely cited report on the history of U.S. energy subsidies entitled, “What Would Jefferson Do? The Historical Role of Federal Subsidies in Shaping America’s Energy Subsidies” as well as numerous other articles on cleantech finance and policy.

Panelists

Ms. Rachel Sheinbein is a Partner with the Energy and Materials team with CMEA Capital. She is on the boards of CMEA portfolio companies Arcadia Biosciences, Contour Energy Systems, Danotek Motion Technologies, Reel Solar (Observer) and Solaria Corporation. Previously, she was a consultant for start-ups in the areas of bio-plastics, solar and water treatment. Prior to consulting, she worked in several positions at Intel Corporation – as a Chemical Engineer for industrial liquid waste and wastewater systems; a Program Manager for Environmental Health & Safety, focusing on metrics and new technology; a Purchasing Analyst; and a Strategic Product Manager for Supply Chain IT.

Ms. Sheinbein is the President of the board of Expanding Your Horizons Network, a non-profit that encourages girls in math, science, engineering and technology. In addition, she volunteers for Imagine H2O, which is turning water problems into entrepreneurial opportunities. Ms. Sheinbein holds a Chemical Engineering degree with a concentration in Environmental Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She was also a sponsored fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she received an MBA and a Masters in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a focus on operations and supply chain.

Dr. Kristina M. Johnson is a Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Enduring Hydro, based in Washington, D.C. She is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, International Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE), SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Previously, she served as Under Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Johnson was Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University, and Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

Dr. Johnson’s awards include the Society of Women Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award, the Dennis Gabor Prize for creativity and innovation in modern optics and the John Fritz Medal. She was also inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. She serves on the board of directors of AES Corporation, Boston Scientific and Cisco Systems, and is a trustee of the African Wildlife Foundation and the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Dr. Johnson received her B.S.E.E., M.S. and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She also has honorary degrees from University of Alabama at Huntsville, Tufts University and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

The Honorable Kathleen A. McGinty is Senior Vice President at Weston Solutions, Inc. where she leads the energy, water, and sustainable property redevelopment businesses, and Operating Partner at Element Partners LLC, a clean tech private equity fund. She is also a Director at NRG Energy, Inc., a leading wholesale power company and Iberdrola USA, a gas and electric utility in the northeast. In 2008, she stepped down as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and as Chair of the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority. During her tenure, she helped lead the state’s successful effort to attract market-leading renewable energy companies to headquarter and manufacture in Pennsylvania, bringing more than $1 billion in new investments and creating approximately 3,000 new jobs.

Previous to her service in Pennsylvania, Ms. McGinty was Bill Clinton’s Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Legislative Assistant and Environmental Advisor to then-Senator Al Gore. She also was a Senior Visiting Fellow for a year in New Delhi, India at TERI, the Tata Energy Research Institute. Ms. McGinty holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Saint Joseph’s University and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law.

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C3E 2012: Moving Ideas From Laboratory to Marketplace
MIT Energy Initiative C3E 2012: Awards Presentation
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

Here you can view the awards ceremony conducted during lunch. Each awardee is introduced by a C3E Ambassador and has an opportunity to describe their work. Below are the awards:

Education/Mentorship Award: Presented by Frances Beinecke of the Natural Resources Defense Council to Tracey Holloway of the University of Wisconsin- Madison

Technology Award: Presented by Marilyn A. Brown of Georgia Institute of Technology to Jing Li of Rutgers University

Education/Mentorship Award

Ms. Frances Beinecke is the president of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the United States' most influential environmental action groups. Under her leadership, the organization has launched a new strategic campaign that sharply focuses NRDC's efforts on establishing a clean energy future that curbs climate change, reviving the world's oceans, defending endangered wildlife and wild places, protecting our health by preventing pollution, fostering sustainable communities, and ensuring safe and sufficient water.

In addition to her work at NRDC, Ms. Beinecke was appointed by President Obama to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. She currently serves on the boards of the World Resources Institute, the Energy Future Coalition, and Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business. She has received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Audubon Society, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Annual Conservation Award from the Adirondack Council, and the Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society.

Ms. Beinecke received a bachelor's degree from Yale College and a master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Professor Tracey Holloway is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. She works with the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and is a member of the Energy Sources, Systems and Policy Cluster. Prof. Holloway's research examines air pollution chemistry and transport at regional and global scales, especially the mechanisms underlying transport across international borders. East Asia and the Great Lakes Region of North America are two active study regions, for which she employs the EPA Community Multi-scale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) to assess regional air pollution, and the Model of Ozone and Related Tracers (MOZART) to analyze pollution on global scales. Her work has been supported by grants from NASA, the EPA, the NIH and the NSF.

Prof. Holloway earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University, working at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). As a graduate fellow through the Princeton Environmental Institute, she also completed a certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her undergraduate degree (Sc.B.) is from Brown University in Applied Mathematics, and her post-doctoral work was done at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

Technology Award

Presented by:Marilyn A. Brown Endowed Professor, School of Public PolicyGeorgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Marilyn A. Brown is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology where she created the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory. In 2010, following her nomination by President Barack Obama, she was sworn into the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power provider. Previously, she held various leadership positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Dr. Brown has written a textbook on Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options; co-edited a book on Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths; and authored more than 250 other publications. She is a national leader in the analysis and interpretation of energy futures in the United States, and is a member of the National Academies’ Board of Energy and Environmental Systems and an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Energy Efficiency. She earned a PhD in Geography from Ohio State University, a MRP in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts and a BA in Political Science from Rutgers University. She is a Certified Energy Manager with the Association of Energy Engineers.

Professor Jing Li is a full professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. Her research interests and activities are primarily in the areas of solid-state inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials that possess interesting and useful properties for clean energy applications. Prof. Li has published over 220 scientific papers (including 12 invited reviews). She is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Materials Research Society, and Sigma Xi. She has received a number of awards, including the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, NSF CAREER Award, Cheung Kong Guest Chair Professor Award from the Ministry of Education of China, Outstanding Achievement Award from the Chinese Association of Science and Technology, and the Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence from Rutgers University. She is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Solid State Chemistry and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Crystal Growth & Design.

Prof. Li completed her undergraduate education in China, and earned her M.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and her Ph.D. from Cornell University under the supervision of Professor Roald Hoffmann (the 1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry), where she also did her Postdoctoral research with Professor Francis DiSalvo.

Corporate Implementation Award

Ms. Merribel S. Ayres, President, of Lighthouse Consulting Group, LLC, has been a leader in the Washington business and political communities for three decades. She founded Lighthouse in 1996 with the objective of providing knowledge-based government and public affairs services to clients focused on energy and environmental policy issues.

Additionally, she provides high-level advisory and strategic management services to CEOs and senior executives. Previously, she was CEO of the National Independent Energy Producers where she played a leading role in framing the national debate over increased competition in the electric power industry.

Ms. Ayres serves on the Board of Directors of CMS Energy and is a Board Member of the United States Energy Association. Her professional affiliations include: The Aspen Institute’s Energy Forum, the Edison Electric Institute, the US-China Business Council, and the American Chamber of Commerce in the People’s Republic of China. She is currently a member of the National Press Club, the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and the Littauer Society of the Harvard Kennedy School.

Ms. Ayres is an honors graduate of Bryn Mawr College, holds a post-graduate degree from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and received advanced leadership training at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Ms. Liz Porter is Program Director, Information Technology Agency (ITA) - Enterprise Transport Management, for Lockheed Martin Corporation’s Information Systems & Global Solutions - Defense. In this capacity, she is responsible for all personnel, equipment, tools, maintenance, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform U.S. Army ITA Transport Management. This includes a 24x7x365 network operations center, project management, and engineering services to 300 sites with over 8500 devices, across four classifications of networks for over 55,000 users. Prior to serving as Program Director of ITA ETM, she was the Director for Corporate Energy Initiatives where she was responsible for developing and executing the strategy for the Energy Campaign working closely with business areas and Corporate Strategy and Business Development to leverage capabilities and grow the business in the expanding energy market. Ms. Porter has demonstrated her technical leadership and program management expertise across several business areas where she has led engineering teams in performing on numerous systems integration and software development projects.

Ms. Porter began her professional career as an engineer at General Electric Astro Space in East Windsor, NJ, where she held assignments of increasing responsibility in a variety of electrical engineering and project management related areas, including, design and integration of solar arrays, electrical power subsystems, and subcontracts management for a variety of military and commercial satellite programs.

Ms. Porter received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University and an MBA from the University of Colorado.

Developing World Award

Ms. Dymphna van der Lans is the Senior Director of the Economic Policy Program and Climate and Energy Program for the German Marshall Fund where she focuses on bringing together leaders from across the energy sector for a sustained dialogue on energy transition. Her experience includes distributed energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resources, investments, financial services and China, India, the United States, and the European Union. Her previous positions include serving as the Director of Global Renewables, Infrastructure, and Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Development Capital, LLP and serving as the Director of Distributed Energy Emerging Markets for BP Alternative Energy, part of BP International.

Ms. Van der Lans earned her MBA at Rice University and her MA in Chinese Economics and Law from Leiden University. She is a graduate of Dialogos’ Leadership for Collective Intelligence program and the Sales and Marketing Leadership Program from the Kellogg School of Management.

Dr. Laura E. Stachel is the co-founder and medical director of We Care Solar. We Care Solar helps reduce maternal mortality in developing regions by providing health workers with reliable lighting, mobile communication, and blood bank refrigeration using solar electricity. They have partnered with the World Health Organization to study the effects of their award-winning Solar Suitcase on maternal health outcomes in rural Liberia, and, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, are conducting field studies of Solar Suitcases in Nigerian and Ugandan health-care clinics.

Dr Stachel is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, and she is the Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the UC Berkeley Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability. She was a co-investigator for a collaborative Population Council study that assessed the standard of Nigerian maternity care, and is co-investigator on an upcoming $1.9 million "Saving Lives at Birth" study on the impact of solar interventions on Ugandan maternal health. Dr. Stachel serves on the Editorial Board for the Berkeley Wellness Letter, co-chairs an international working group on Energy and Health for the UN Foundation, and lectures at the UCB School of Public Health.

Dr. Stachel holds an M.D. from University of California, San Francisco and an M.P.H. in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley.

Entrepreneurship Award

Ms. Karen Conover is the Vice President of DNV KEMA Energy and Sustainability. Her experience is primarily in technical consulting in the wind energy industry, which has captivated her since the fourth grade. She founded Global Energy Concepts (GEC), a wind-focused company, which was later acquired by Det Norse Veritas (DNV), a global risk management firm with a long history in the wind industry that recently acquired KEMA Energy and Sustainability. In 1995, Ms. Conover was nominated by a client for a position on the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Board of Directors. She continues to serve on the AWEA Board today and currently holds the longest tenure of any board member. She is also a board member of Women of Wind Energy.

Ms. Conover received her BS in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science from Duke University and her MS in Renewable Energy Systems from the University of Arizona.

Award Recipient:Judy Dorsey President and Principal EngineerBrendle Group

Ms. Judy Dorsey is the founding President and Principal Engineer at Brendle Group. She’s a valued collaborator offering 20 years of executive leadership in sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship. Her specialties include district-scale and community-scale planning in climate and energy, clean energy, sustainable economic development, organizational development, and net zero energy and water initiatives. She has led the completion of 200+ sustainability projects for over 100 clients across 15 states including over a dozen energy plans for some of the nation’s most progressive communities and major cities. Over the past 15 years, Ms. Dorsey grew Brendle Group’s five practice areas and four sectors into an award-winning consulting group. She co-founded the Colorado Clean Energy Cluster and helped spearhead two of its primary initiatives- the International Cleantech Network, a global network connecting the world’s leading cleantech clusters; and FortZED, an initiative to create one of the world’s largest active net zero energy districts. She utilizes Brendle Group’s LEED Gold headquarters as a replicable business model for cost-effective deep green renovations, sharing her expertise widely in volunteer engineering and sustainability roles.

Ms. Dorsey holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from CSU and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University

Policy/Advocacy Award

Ms. Melanie Kenderdine is the Executive Director of the MIT Energy Initiative. In that capacity she was a member of the research team for MIT's Future of Natural Gas Study and is the rapporteur, report author and editor for the MITEI Symposium Series reports which include Retrofitting Existing Coal Plants for Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Electrification of the Transportation System and the Impacts of Intermittent Generation on Baseload Power Plant Operations.

Before joining MITEI, she served as the Vice President of Washington Operations for the Gas Technology Institute, and she served in several key posts at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as an appointee of President Bill Clinton. Concurrently, Kenderdine served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of DOE for oil, gas, coal and nuclear issues. She was the primary architect of the exchange of Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil in 2000, managed DOE's response to the Japan nuclear accident, helped manage the federal response to the California electricity crisis, and oversaw the establishment of the Home Heating Oil Reserve in the northeastern US. Prior to joining DOE, she worked as chief of staff and as legislative director for New Mexico Congressman Bill Richardson.

Ms. Downey is the Assistant County Administrator for Barnstable County and the Administrator for the Cape Light Compact. Barnstable County, or Cape Cod Massachusetts, is a county of approximately 200,000 year-round residents. The Cape Light Compact is the first municipal aggregator in Massachusetts. Ms. Downey is responsible for management and direction of the Cape Light Compact’s electric power supply aggregation program and energy efficiency programs. She represents the Cape Light Compact on its sister organization, the Cape & Vineyard Electric Cooperative, which is presently working on installing up to 40 MW of distributed renewable energy projects. Ms. Downey has been working on energy related issues for over 17 years.

Prior to joining Barnstable County in 1994, she served as the SEPA/Public Affairs Manager for the City of Issaquah, Washington. Maggie earned her Masters of Public Administration from the University of Washington at Seattle and holds a Graduate Certificate in Management from Harvard University Extension School.

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C3E 2012: Awards Presentation
MIT Energy Initiative C3E 2012: Technologies and Business Models for the Developing World
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

Here you can see Richenda Van Leeuwen of the United Nations Foundation moderate a panel discussing energy in the developing world. Allison Archambault, President of EarthSpark International; Alla Jezmir, Business Development for AES Corporation; Rhonda Jordan, MIT PhD student in the Engineering Systems Division; and Meg Harper, Humboldt State University (CA) Master's student in the Environmental Systems: Energy, Technology and Policy department serve as panelists.

About the Speakers

Moderator

Ms. Richenda Van Leeuwen is Executive Director, Energy and Climate, Energy Access Initiative overseeing the UN Foundation's work on energy access and its engagement with the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. She founded and leads UNF’s Energy Access Practitioner Network, a 600-strong global network catalyzing market-led solutions for energy access in developing countries.

She joined the UN Foundation in 2010 from Good Energies, a global renewable energy private equity firm where she led its work both on commercial emerging markets transactions and as a founding board member of the Good Energies Foundation, on the application of renewable energy technologies for poverty alleviation in developing countries.

A sought out speaker on energy access, gender equity and poverty issues, she has over 20 years of executive management experience with the UN, private sector and non-profits on several continents, in particular focusing on impact investing for micro- and small and medium sized enterprises as well as post-conflict reconstruction, refugee issues and economic empowerment.

She currently serves on the board of SELCO India, a leading renewable energy social enterprise focusing on energy solutions for poor families in India. She gained both her BS and MBA degrees from Durham University, UK.

Panelists

Ms. Allison Archambault is President of EarthSpark International, an NGO working to deliver high-quality energy solutions to off-grid Haiti. She is developing value chains for small-scale clean energy technologies and micro-grids. Ms. Archambault is also a founding principal at Fresh Generation, a consultancy working with companies, non-profits, and governments toward widespread and efficient adoption of sustainable energy solutions. Fresh Generation currently serves organizations in the US, Europe, and the Caribbean.

Previously, Ms. Archambault worked for 3TIER to facilitate renewable energy siting and integration. She also led the renewable energy partners program in the early days of GridPoint, a clean tech company in the smart grid space. She has a background in grid-tied residential solar and demand management and in rural electrification in the Caribbean and West Africa. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and Economics from Tufts University, and she firmly believes that a smart grid does not have to be a big grid.

Ms. Alla Jezmir is a Project Manager in the Business Development group at AES Corporation. She is currently focused on developing the company’s Global Integrated Gas program, which aims to deliver energy through this more environmentally friendly fuel to markets where fuel oil and diesel are prominent. She is co-founder and board director of EGG-energy, an energy distribution company that provides portable, rechargeable batteries to low-income African households and small enterprises lacking access to the power grid. Previously, as Principal of the Green Portfolio at Calvert Foundation, she led the organization’s Green Initiative. She worked in TechnoServe’s Swaziland and Kenya offices, was a consultant at Reingold and participated in the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs. She has consulted for the ILO, GreenFuel Technologies, and Masdar. Ms. Jezmir interned in the CEO’s office of Fabindia, one of India’s emerging retailers, and the Cleantech Group, Investment Banking Division, at Jefferies & Company. She has an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a B.S. in international business and political science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Ms. Rhonda Jordan recently received her PhD from MIT’s Engineering Systems Division after developing a novel approach to long-term generation expansion planning for power sectors in developing countries. In 2008, she worked for the United Nations Environment Programme on rural electrification in East Africa, developing business models for off-grid electrification. With regulatory knowledge and experience, technical ability and the strong desire to improve access to modern energy in a sustainable manner, she is one of the founding members of EGG-energy, Inc.

Ms. Jordan is originally from the Washington, DC metropolitan area. She studied electrical engineering and obtained her bachelors and masters degrees from Columbia University.

Meg HarperResearch EngineerSchatz Energy Research Center

Ms. Meg Harper is a research engineer at the Schatz Energy Research Center in Arcata, CA and is finishing her Masters in the Energy, Technology and Policy program at Humboldt State University (HSU), where she studied the technical, environmental, economic and social aspects of renewable energy and energy efficiency development. Within this broad context, and with complimentary studies toward a second bachelor’s degree in Environmental Resources Engineering, she has been able to explore local and state-level energy efficiency and climate change policy, the technical design of solar thermal, wind and PV systems, and appropriate technology design and dissemination for international development. Ms. Harper’s thesis research has focused on improving the quality of electricity on renewable energy mini-grids and included performing a pilot installation of student-designed “GridShare” demand-side management devices on a village microhydro system in Bhutan. In addition to her work in Bhutan, she has performed field work as part of the Lighting Africa program in Kenya, attended the International Development Design Summit in Ghana (2009) and assisted a team from UC Berkeley with a solar thermal design project at AIDG in Guatemala.

Prior to attending HSU, Ms. Harper received a BS in Environmental Studies from Warren Wilson College and has worked in the field in a number of different capacities including environmental contaminant and wildlife research, as well as experiential environmental education.

The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

About the Speaker

Elizabeth Dipuo PetersMinister of EnergySouth Africa

Honorable Minister Dipuo Peters has been the Minister of Energy of the Republic of South Africa since May 11, 2009. She has been a long time member of the African National Congress, including serving as the Provincial Chairperson for four years. She is also a member of the Women’s League National Executive Committee. She previously served as the premier of the Northern Cape region for five years, remains a Member of Parliament (National Assembly), and was previously a Member of Executive Council (MEC) for Health in the Northern Cape.

Minister Peter’s earlier work included working for NCCR a United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) structure which worked for the repatriation of political exiles and re-integration of political prisoners after the unbanning of political organizations. She then worked as a social worker for the NCCR, which included liaising with other organizations on behalf of the Committee in the Northern Cape, administering grants for the disabled, aged and un-accompanied minors, and proposing and implementing service plans for the individuals and groups of returnees.

Minister Peters earned her BA in Social Work from the University of the North. She holds certificates in Development and Public Policy, Executive Management, and International Policy Management.

The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

Here you can see Dr. Angela Belcher of MIT discuss research possibilities that can significantly affect the energy industry.

About the Speaker

Prof. Angela Belcher is now the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy in Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering at MIT. She is a materials chemist with expertise in the fields of biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces and solid state chemistry. The focus of her research is understanding and using the process by which nature makes materials in order to design novel hybrid organic-inorganic electronic and magnetic materials on new length scales. She then uses these materials in applications as varied as solar cells, batteries, medical diagnostics and basic single molecule interactions related to disease. Her research is highly interdisciplinary and brings together the fields of inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and electrical engineering.

Prof. Belcher received her BA in Creative Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991, and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997. She was a member of the faculty of the University of Texas, Austin from 1999 to 2002, and joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002.

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C3E 2012: The Role of Basic Research in Energy Science and Technology
MIT Energy Initiative C3E 2012: Welcome Address - Dr. Susan Hockfield, President Emerita, MIT
The MIT Energy Initiative and the US Department of Energy hosted an invitation-only Women in Clean Energy Symposium on September 28, 2012. This symposium – for leaders who have helped advance the careers of women in clean energy, academics, other experts in clean energy, and students who are studying clean energy disciplines – will help lay the foundation for a broader, continuing effort to enable and support the careers of women in clean energy.

Here you can see MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield’s opening remarks. “The most important challenge for this generation,” she said, “is building a sustainable energy system for the future."

About the Speaker

Dr. Susan Hockfield served as the sixteenth president of MIT from December 2004 through June 2012. Her leadership led to the foundation of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). She continues to hold a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience. Prior to joining the faculty at MIT, she was the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology at Yale University where she focused her research on the development of the brain and on glioma, a deadly form of brain cancer, and pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research. She moved on to be dean of its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, with oversight of more than 70 graduate programs, and then provost, Yale’s chief academic and administrative officer.

Dr. Hockfield is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and she serves as a director of the General Electric Company and of Qualcomm Incorporated. She earned a B.A. in biology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University at the School of Medicine and has honorary degrees from many institutions.

Can innovation in technology and manufacturing allow American companies to compete and ultimately thrive in this huge but challenging market?

Professor Buonassisi will address these questions as he explores the outlook for American PV cell and module suppliers. He will begin by using an industry-validated bottoms-up cost model to compare the cost-reduction potentials of various innovative PV technologies, and how their successful development could influence manufacturing location decisions. He will also describe recent progress toward these innovative technologies, highlighting the new computational and experimental tools that have accelerated the cycle of discovery and product development — providing “sneak peeks” at the technologies that may grace rooftops in years to come. He will conclude by showcasing recent success stories of U.S. innovation.

Join us as Professor Buonassisi explains how technology innovation will open up pathways for success in the U.S. solar PV industry.

Tonio Buonassisi, MIT Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, heads an interdisciplinary research laboratory focused on photovoltaics (PV). He completed his Ph.D. in Applied Science & Technology at UC Berkeley, with additional research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and the Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics. He is author of over a hundred journal papers, and co-developer of a dedicated course on photovoltaics.

Prof. Buonassisi invents, develops, and applies defect-engineering techniques over the entire solar cell process, from crystal growth to modules, improving the cost effectiveness of commercial and next-generation solar cells. Several of his PV innovations have been implemented in industry, including key contributions leading to the founding of solar start-ups and a research institute.]]>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:34:10 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21030-the-future-of-u-s-solar-photovoltaic-technology-tonio-buonassisi-mit-club-of-northern-california
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The Future of U.S. Solar Photovoltaic Technology - Tonio Buonassisi - MIT Club of Northern California
Energy and Clean Tech Series The Future of Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel - Michael GallagherAbstract

The just completed two-year National Petroleum Council's Future Transportation Fuels Study engaged more than 300 organizations and examined the future demand in the United States over the next 40 years for all modes of transportation, from passenger cars, trucks, air, rail and marine. It included a comprehensive assessment of the potential technology contribution for a variety of fuel types and vehicle technologies. This presentation will review the findings of the FTF study with respect to the challenges and opportunities in introducing alternative fuels, specifically natural gas, into the transportation sector and evaluate their potential for successful adoption on the basis of cost effectiveness, fuel efficiency, GHG reductions and market penetration potential. This discussion of the findings will review the advantages and challenges of displacing liquid-fuel-based internal combustion engine (ICE) technologies, and the additional barriers and factors that must be considered in the adoption and integration of new natural gas systems into the future energy transportation mix. Implications for global energy transportation systems will be articulated.

In summary, the presentation will:

Highlight the potential role of natural gas in future HD and LD transportation systems over the next 40 years

Articulate the key challenges to natural gas expansion including technical and commercial barriers

Illustrate the key driving forces for natural gas transportation expansion, as well as possible disadvantages when compared with conventional petroleum- based vehicles, and other alternatives such as biofuels, electric vehicles and hydrogen

About the Speaker

Dr. J. Michael Gallagher is Senior Adviser, and Former President and Chief Operating Officer of Westport Innovations, where he is working to encourage the global adoption of natural gas in clean transportation systems. Dr. Gallagher is currently Chairman of the 60-organization Natural Gas Group of the two-year US national energy study, the DOE NPC Study of Future Transportation Fuels. He also serves as Chairman of the Boards of Agility Fuel Systems, a leading natural gas fuel systems company, and the Southern California Air Quality Management District’s Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership, and is Former Chairman of the Board of Cummins Westport Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Vancouver Opera Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy of Canada-British Columbia.

This talk was given on September 11, 2012 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series, sponsored by IHS-CERA.

One significant challenge facing a broader deployment of modern grid technologies is integrating with legacy systems while driving toward elegant, interoperable solutions in future grid integration efforts. This challenge is compounded by the de facto approach of customizing point-to-point integration solutions, resulting in an "accidental architecture" of the existing grid.

The Design Structure Matrix methodology is applied to two publically available architecture models to demonstrate how this approach can help define smart grid architectures and to help identify architectural groupings that can lead tobetter modularization of smart grid systems and standardization efforts. The analysis concludes that initial smart grid architectural efforts can be improved upon by identifying areas of modularity and organizing around them.

Before working at Navigant, Brad worked for Summit Blue Consulting, Spirit AeroSystems, Nuvera Fuel Cells, and the United States Peace Corps. Brad earned an M.B.A. and an M.S. in Engineering Systems with a concentration in Energy and Sustainability at MIT in the Leaders for Global Operations program. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, summa cum laude, with a minor in BusinessEngineering Technology from Auburn University.

About the Series

The MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar Series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.

A network that distributes power generated by Renewable Energy Supplies (RESs) will require a "smart box" in each home in the network to meter power and to connect to and communicate with other elements of the network. These smart boxes will also have to function as control devices to ensure safe and reliable operation of the grid. Use of systems engineering tools such as stakeholder analysis and axiomatic design and STAMP (Systems Theoretic Accident Model and Processes) was effective for development of initial customer attributes and associated functional requirements, design parameters, and process variables, respectively. Inclusion of system-level safety analysis such as STPA in conjunction with the aforementioned systems engineering tools in the conceptual design phase is highly effective in capturing key functional requirements early in the design and development of complex socio-technical systems.

About the Speaker

Jonathan Hickey is a Commander in the United States Coast Guard (USCG). He holds a bachelors degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a masters in civil engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a masters in project management from George Washington University, and recently completed his masters in engineering and management from MIT's System Design and Management Program.

About the Series

The MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar Series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.

In her research, Thompson, along with researchers Noelle Selin and Sebastian Rausch, evaluated the co-benefits of potential US energy policy options with respect to regional ozone and particulate matter concentrations and air pollution-related health and economic impacts - focusing specifically on a US-wide Clean Energy Standard. They also evaluated a market-based carbon policy motivated by recently-proposed cap and trade policies. The researchers used a modeling framework linking three tools that each model one aspect of the interplay between the U.S. economy, regional air quality, and human health. In this way, they enforced consistency in assumptions and allowed for critical feedbacks to be represented when assessing the co-benefits and distributional implications of energy policies affecting air quality. The linked models included: the MIT-developed United States Regional Energy Policy (USREP) economic model, extensively used for energy and natural resource policy analysis; the Comprehensive Air Quality Model with Extensions (CAMx); and MIT-developed health impact software. Thompson and the other researchers assessed the changes in economic variables such as GDP, energy use, sectoral output and consumption due to energy policy, as well as emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutant precursors. Future scenarios of ozone and PM2.5 (particulate matter with a diameter < 2.5 µm) were then modeled using CAMx for the continental U.S. to determine the impact on ground level pollution and the potential for human exposure in major urban areas in the US. Results evaluating the Clean Energy Standard indicated this policy would lead to nationwide seasonally averaged decreases in eight hour averaged ozone of up to two parts per billion with localized maximum decreases an order of magnitude larger. Fine sulfate particulate would also decrease by two to three µg/m3 across the US with localized decreases an order of magnitude larger. The researchers estimated mortalities and morbidities associated with ozone and particulate matter, and quantified the economic impact of these damages. Results were compared with the cost of climate policies.

Despite widespread interest in electric cars, the EIA projects that liquid fuels will provide more than 90% of US transportation energy through 2035. There is an urgent need to find renewable sources, to provide a reliable supply for US consumers and to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions created by fossil fuels.

Biofuels look well-positioned for this role, but face daunting challenges in raising capital for facilities and competing with volatile commodity prices. Biotechnology offers firms the promise of meeting these crucial challenges by improving the yields of feedstocks, reducing processing costs and producing high-value outputs. But will this be enough?

* How effectively will biofuels compete with other transportation fuels, such as ethanol or natural gas?

* What are the major challenges biofuels firms face as they attempt to scale up to compete with petroleum and what are their strategies to deal with them?

* What federal policies are most important to the industrybfuture?

Hear first-hand how these executives will tackle these and other key challenges to build their companies for success!

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New materials, architectures, and concepts are needed to realize many low-cost, sustainable energy conversion and carbon mitigation applications. Organic semiconductors and transition-metal oxides comprise two promising classes of materials in this respect. Although structurally distinct, organics and oxides share astonishing chemical diversity; highly-localized, sometimes strongly-correlated electronic states; and, in instances, appreciable non-covalent interactions. As such, they provide a broad design space but also significant challenges to contemporary electronic structure theory. In this talk, I will describe theoretical and computational studies, based on first-principles density functional theory and beyond, of organic semiconductors and donor-acceptor interfaces in solar cells; transition metal oxide photocatalysts; and metal-organic frameworks for carbon capture.

About the speaker

Jeffrey B. Neaton is the Director of the Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also Deputy Director for Science of the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab. His interests are in the theory and simulation of the electronic structure of materials, with particular focus on the molecular-scale understanding of light-matter interactions and charge dynamics in new materials relevant to energy conversion and carbon capture. He has published over 70 articles in leading journals, and given more than 80 invited talks and seminars worldwide. In 2009, he received the Presidential Early-Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Recent attention has been given to expanding the portfolio of gasoline and diesel alternatives. The result is significant discussion around the “Open Fuel Standard” which would require that vehicles be capable of using a range of ethanol and methanol blends, and encourage or force the sale of other alternatives: hydrogen, electricity, CNG, etc. Academic analysis has suggested that achieving substantial biofuels and methanol expansion is a matter of creating new government policies, mandates, and subsidies to overcome the technical issues of alcohol fuel production and the practical issues challenges of the “chicken and egg” deployment hurdle. Some of these policies fail to fully appreciate the technical, cost, and liability issues that will be imposed on the automotive and fuel industry. Perhaps more importantly, these policies assume that major breakthroughs in clean fuel production methods are inevitable. What can the lessons of less complex fuel initiatives tell us about the merits of the Open Fuel Standard? Is this the most effective pathway for industry and the fuel providers, or will it undermine and divert critical mass from other technologies? Will it provide the opportunity for consumers to select preferable technologies? Why does this particular approach warrant actions vis-à-vis other potential options? The topic certainly merits a rigorous debate and analysis that engages all components of the transportation/energy system prior to legislative action.

About the speaker

Tom Stricker is Vice President of Technical and Regulatory Affairs, and Energy and Environmental Research, for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

This webinar will offer an interdisciplinary perspective on solar innovation in the United States by examining over 100 case studies. It will use these research findings to describe how self-organizing groups, or "tribes," have become a driving force in transforming the solar innovation industry nationally and globally, and also focus on their potential to transform the value network.

The webinar will highlight various characteristics of successful tribes. Factors such as dynamics leading to formation, patterns of growth, evolution, and, in some cases, demise will be examined as well. The presentation will also describe the place and relationship of the ideal entity within existing and future solar innovation clusters.

The current status of the United States' competitive advantage will be discussed by comparing emerging and established regional solar innovation capabilities. A framework will be offered to provide government and industry decision-makers with an approach that can be implemented immediately to build a global competitive advantage.

This research was funded by the US Department of Energy.

About the Speaker

Donny Holaschutz, SDM '10, is a clean technology and sustainability entrepreneur based out of Austin, Texas. He is a co-founder and the CEO of Bloomgi, a startup focused on creating innovative, sustainable, and environmentally-friendly product alternatives that offer consumers the choice to improve the health of our planet without sacrificing convenience.

About the Series

The MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar Series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.

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Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:47:07 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18451-how-self-organizing-tribes-are-transforming-the-solar-industry-donny-holaschutz-sdm-10-co-founder-and
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How Self-Organizing "Tribes" are Transforming the Solar Industry - Donny Holaschutz, SDM '10 Co-founder and CEO, Bloomgi
MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series Leo Bonanni, "Sourcemap and Supply Chain Transparency"
Supply chains are the backbone of globalization and understanding them is the key to social and environmental justice. Leonardo Bonanni will talk about Sourcemap -- the first platform for supply chain transparency -- which started as his Ph.D. thesis project at the Media Lab and is now a company dedicated to helping individuals and organizations find out where things come from, what they’re made of, and how they impact people and the environment. Companies use Sourcemap to communicate transparently with their customers and tell the story of how products are made. Thousands of maps have already been created for food, furniture, clothing, electronics and more.

Sourcemap has been featured by the BBC, NPR, the Globe and Mail, the Boston Globe and received awards from Scientific American, Ars Electronica, and ID magazine among others.

Leonardo Bonanni is the Founder and CEO of Sourcemap.com. He was recently named one of 2011’s “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics” by the Ethisphere Institute. He has a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group, an MS and a Master of Architecture from MIT, a BA from Columbia, and he teaches sustainable product design at Parsons and MIT.

What key technologies will drive the evolution of the grid in the coming decades?

What state & federal policies are necessary for efficient development & deployment?

Our current electric grid is fairly robust and efficient, but will need to change significantly in the next 20 years to meet the emerging opportunities and challenges of distributed & large scale renewable energy generation, emergence of electric vehicles, dynamic retail pricing, interregional system planning and data communications privacy & security. Profs. Kassakian & Schmalensee, co-leaders of the newly released MIT study, The Future of the Electric Grid, will present its findings on the challenges facing our grid and the recommended technologies and government policies required to meet them.

Biographies

Dr. John Kassakianis an MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and former Director of the MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems. He is the Founding President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and is the recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE William E. Newell Award, the IEEE Power Electronics Society’s Distinguished Service Award, and the IEEE Millennium Medal. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. John has published extensively in the areas of power electronics and is a co-author of the textbook Principles of Power Electronics. He is a consultant to industry and government and serves on the boards of several public companies and ISO-NE, the operator of the New England power grid.

Dr. Richard Schmalensee is MIT’s Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics & Management , a member of the MIT Energy Council, and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He served as the Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007 and was a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers with primary responsibility for energy and environmental policy from 1989 through 1991. Professor Schmalensee has published 11 books and more than 120 articles; his work focuses on industrial organization economics and its policy applications. Dick has served as a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association, and the EPA’s Environmental Economics Advisory Committee.]]>
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:39:59 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/18364-future-of-the-electric-grid-mit-club-of-northern-california
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Future of the Electric Grid - MIT Club of Northern California
Energy and Clean Tech Series Energy 101: Biofuels
In this short video, Dr. Mark Mba Wright gives a broad overview of biofuels: from what they are to their technological requirements and challenges. This video is a follow-up of Dr. Mba Wright's talk for the MIT Energy Club's Energy 101 Series in 2011.

As part of California’s 33% renewable electricity portfolio standard, Governor Brown established a goal of 12,000 MW of renewable generation at customer sites, e.g. roof-top solar, or connected to the lower voltage electrical grid. These Distributed Generation (DG) facilities avoid some of the permitting and capacity problems of large-scale, transmission-connected projects and offer reduced electrical losses, avoidance of new substations, easier permitting, and local economic benefits.

However, the electrical distribution system of today was not designed from either a technical or regulatory perspective for two-way power flows. As the Smart Grid is implemented many technical issues will be resolved, but other questions regarding access to the grid and establishing fair and sustainable rates for users of the distribution grid will remain.

How did Serious Energy bring a high-tech “walk through walls” mentality to the building materials industry in order to challenge technological barriers that have gone unquestioned in the building industry for decades?

How does Serious Energy achieve high-performing, energy-efficient building materials?

Kevin will describe the vision and technology that led Serious Energy to successfully retrofit all 6514 windows on the Empire State Building as well as ship over 2 million energy efficient drywall panels and do 70,000 building projects over the last seven years.

Chemical transformations are ubiquitous in today's global-scale energy economy. The ability to catalyze chemical reactions efficiently will continue to be critically important as we aim to enable a future energy economy based on renewable, sustainable resources. This talk will focus on our efforts to develop catalytic materials for the low-temperature, electron-driven production and consumption of chemical fuels, reactions that could play key roles for future energy technologies. The reactions we seek to catalyze include: (1) H2 generation from water and (2) the synthesis of alcohols and hydrocarbons from CO2, and (3) the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), reducing O2 to H2O. Reactions (1) and (2) are relevant to the synthesis of chemical fuels from renewable resources (e.g. wind and solar), while reaction (3) is a major technical obstacle at the cathode in low-temperature fuel cells. Common catalyst materials for these reactions face challenges in terms of activity, selectivity, stability, and/or cost and earth-abundance. This talk will describe approaches used in our research group to understand the governing principles guiding the reaction chemistry, as well as strategies to tailor the surface chemistry of materials through control of morphology, stoichiometry, and surface structure at the nano- and atomic-scale in order to overcome performance barriers in catalyzing these reactions, particularly for low-cost, earth-abundant materials.

This talk will describe the tremendous potential benefits of shale gas and the environmental challenges posed by shale gas production. John Deutch will review the work of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Shale Gas Subcommittee, which he chaired, including the recommendations, the reasons for these recommendations, and the lessons to be learned from the experiences of this unusual advisory committee.

About the Speaker

John Deutch is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970, and has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost. Mr. Deutch has published over 160 technical publications in physical chemistry, as well as numerous publications on technology, energy, international security, and public policy issues.

John Deutch served as Director of Central Intelligence from May 1995-December 1996. From 1994-1995, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and served as Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from 1993-1994. John Deutch has also served as Director of Energy Research (1977-1979), Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology (1979), and Undersecretary (1979-80) in the United States Department of Energy.

Germany is a highly industrialized country and with its recent decision to eliminate nuclear energy, it has the potential to become a model for how a carbon-free economy without nuclear power can prosper. However, the political environment in Germany means it has passed a “point of no return” – nuclear energy will be completely phased out in 2022 while Germany vows to continue to honor its greenhouse gas emissions reductions commitment. For Germany, there is no way back to the energy sources of the 20th Century.

Today, the country faces uncertainty regarding how exactly it will meet its energy needs while facing self-imposed nuclear and emissions constraints. But by creating a “sink or swim” situation, Germany will be forced to innovate and lead. In doing so, Germany seeks to create a huge opportunity for companies and technologies that will help it to master this ambitious energy transformation, or “Energiewende”. A regulatory environment that favours cleaner energy sources, advanced storage solutions, better grid structure and management, and improved energy efficiency has the potential to develop into a uniquely innovative marketplace for companies around the world that lead in cutting edge green and clean technologies. A new chapter in German-American cooperation may unlock potential for developing the products of tomorrow and help demonstrate how growth can be uncoupled from emissions without relying on nuclear energy.

The state of Hawai'i plans to obtain 40% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2030. Balancing intermittent wind with fossil fuel plants can be expensive, slowing adoption. A social and technical infrastructure for temporary reductions in load (demand response) enables 4% greater wind harvesting at 10% less operating cost. This webinar will focus on an investigation that applied a stochastic unit commitment optimization to account for uncertain wind forecasts. Fast-responding demand enabled existing thermal generators to run more efficiently, increased the grid's reliability margins, and infrequently impacted customers. The demand response modeled here could put Hawai'i on a pragmatic path to achieving its energy independence goals and will provide lessons for renewable energy integration on the mainland.

About the Speaker

Karl Critz (SDM '10) is a clean energy innovator. The research presented in this talk is the result of a forthcoming publication with the National Renewable Energy Lab. As a developer and product manager, Critz has launched successful products in the controls software and medical device spaces. He is currently working on smart grid technologies to speed integration of practical residential solar power.

About the Series

The MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar Series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.

The Recovery Act invested more than $90 billion in clean energy and leveraged more than $100 billion in private capital for investments in manufacturing, power generation, and the residential and commercial building sectors to advance the deployment of energy efficiency, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, low-carbon fossil fuel, and other technologies. This talk will review the rationale, design, and implementation of the act’s clean energy package, including a survey of policy principles for clean energy stimulus, a description of the process of crafting this package during the 2008-2009 Presidential transition, and identifying the key elements of the package. Aldy will also discuss the initial employment, economic activity, and energy outcomes associated with these energy investments and focus on the Recovery Act’s support for renewable power through grants and loan guarantees.

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A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Clean Energy Package
MIT Energy Initiative Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future? – Richard Lester - MIT Club of Northern California
Dr. Richard Lester, one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of nuclear energy, will discuss the potential of nuclear reactor and fuel cycle innovations with respect to economic competitiveness, modularity, safety and energy security. He will evaluate the role of America’s nuclear energy innovation system, including new challenges for nuclear science and engineering education.

Richard K. Lester is Head of MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, where he is also the founding director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center. His research focuses on innovation management and policy, with an emphasis on the energy and manufacturing sectors. He has also published widely on the management and control of nuclear technology.

Dr. Lester received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College (London) and his PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT. He has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1979. He serves on several boards and as an advisor and consultant to corporations, governments, foundations and non-profit groups, and speaks frequently to academic, business and general audiences throughout the world.

Professor Lester’s latest book, Unlocking Energy Innovation, will be published by MIT Press in November. In addition to many other books, he published the landmark Made in America with Michael Dertouzos and Robert Solow. He is also the co-author of the widely-cited recent MIT reports on The Future of Nuclear Power and The Future of Coal.
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Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future? – Richard Lester - MIT Club of Northern California
Energy and Clean Tech Series Robert Solow - The State of the Economy &amp; Some Implications for the Energy Industry
Robert Solow
Nobel Laureate, 1987
Institute Professor, Emeritus

Robert M. Solow is considered to be one of the founders of modern neoclassical economics. He utilized determinants of economic growth to be separated out into increases in inputs and technical progress. Using his model, he calculated that about four-fifths of the growth in U.S. output per worker was attributable to technical progress. Solow also was the first to develop a growth model with different vintages of capital.

Professor Solow held several government positions, including Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, and member of the President's Commission on Income Maintenance (1968-70). He won the 1961 American Economic Associations John Bates Clark award in 1961, and the Nobel Prize in 1987 for his analysis of economic growth. Solow also received the National Medal of Science in 1999.

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Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:20:33 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/14986-robert-solow-the-state-of-the-economy-amp-some-implications-for-the-energy-industry
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Robert Solow - The State of the Economy & Some Implications for the Energy Industry
MIT Energy Initiative Report on the First Quadrennial Technology Review
Steve Koonin
Under Secretary for Science, US Department of Energy

The Department of Energy Quadrennial Technology Review is an assessment that binds together multiple energy technologies, as well as multiple DOE energy technology programs, in the common purpose of solving our energy challenges. Access to clean, affordable, secure, and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of America’s prosperity. And yet, energy security, U.S. competitiveness, and the environmental impacts of energy are long-standing challenges.

The QTR utilizes six strategies as a robust framework for the Department’s energy technology activities, including principles we can use to establish multi-year program plans and prioritize our technology research and development. While technical innovation is vital to addressing the nation’s energy challenges, it creates a practical problem: we have limited resources and urgent problems. So how do we choose among the many technically viable approaches to pursue? Since we cannot pursue all approaches simultaneously, the QTR focused on developing the principles that guide those difficult choices.

The most crucial problem in achieving a more sustainable industrial system is lock-in or path dependency due to (1) the failure to envision, design, and implement policies that achieve co-optimization, or the mutually reinforcing of social goals (economic welfare, environmental quality, and earning capacity), and (2) entrenched economic and political interests that game (and gain from) the present system and advancement of its current trends. It is argued that industrial policy, environmental law and policy, and trade initiatives must be 'opened up' by expanding the practice of multi-purpose policy design and that these policies must be integrated as well. Integration can result in stronger, but not necessarily bigger, government. Sustainable development requires stimulating revolutionary technological and institutional innovation through environmental, health, safety, economic, labor-market, and trade regulation. Greater support for these changes must also be reinforced by 'opening up the participatory and political space' to enable new voices to contribute to integrated systems thinking and solutions. Societal innovations and transformation are also needed, but they are insufficient by themselves to transcend technical, economic, financial, and political lock-in. Law is key to accomplishing both. Insights from a new book: Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State (2011, Yale University Press) will inform the presentation.

About the Speaker

Professor Nicholas A. Ashford teaches courses in Environmental Law, Policy, & Economics; Law, Technology, & Public Policy; and Sustainability, Trade & Environment. Ashford is a faculty associate of the Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development in the School of Engineering; the Institute for Work and Employment Research in the Sloan School of Management; and the Environmental Policy Group in the Urban Studies Department. He holds both a PhD in chemistry and a law degree from the University of Chicago, where he also received graduate education in economics. Ashford's courses, jointly listed with ESD/Engineering, the Sloan School, and Urban Studies, draw students from all over the Institute. He has supervised graduate theses in the TPP, ESD, and SDM programs.

Ashford is the co-author of two recent textbooks/readers: Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State (2011, Yale University Press) and Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda (2008, MIT Press). He has published five additional books and several hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews.

Ashford was a public member and chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety & Health, served on the EPA Science Advisory Board, and was chairman of the Committee on Technology Innovation & Economics of the EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. Ashford is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former chair of its Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering. He served as an advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cleaner Production; the Journal of Environmental Technology and Management; the Journal of Environmental Policy and Governance; and Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

About the Series

The MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar Series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.